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PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
GRAND LODGE
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NORTH CAROLINA
'One hundred and fifteenth. Annual 'Gemmunkaticn
ANT RALEIGH
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, January 14, 15 and 16
1902
ASYLUM
ADDRESSES OE GRAND OEEIGERS.
ELECTED OFFICERS.
H. I. CLARK
W. S. LIDDELL . .
F. D. WINSTON ...
S. M. GATTIS
Wm. SIMPSON
JNO. C. DREWRY
Grand Master Scotland Neck
.Deputy Grand Master ....Charlotte
.Senior Grand Warden Windsor
.Junior Grand Warden Hillsboro
.Grand Treasurer Raleigh
.Grand Secretary Raleigh
APPOINTED OFFICERS.
A. A. MARSHALL
B. W. HATCHER..
T. J. REED
R. N. HACKETT...
E. F. LAMB ..:
F. M. WINCHESTER
E. W. O’HANLON
J. G. SNYDER
W. B. McKOY
R. H. BRADLEY
Grand Chaplain
Grand Lecturer
Senior Grand Deacon
Junior Grand Deacon.
Grand Marshal
Grand Sword Bearer.
Grand Pursuivant
Grand Steward
Grand Steward
Grand Tiler
Raleigh
Liberty
Biltmore
Wilkesboro
Elizabeth City
Charlotte
Winston
.Rocky Mount
Wilmington
Raleigh
GRAND OrrSGERS.
A List of the Past Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge of
North Caroexna, from 1787 to 1902, Inclusive, and
Dates When Elected.
Samuel Johnson 1787
Richard Caswell 1788
Samuel Johnson. ...1789, 1790, 1791
William R. Davie. .1792, 1793, 1794,
1795, I796. T797, I798-
William Polk 1799, 1800, 1801
John Louis Taylor.. 1802, 1803, 1804
John Hall 1805, 1806, 1807
Benjamin Smith. ...1808, 1809, 1810
Robert Williams. ...1811, 1812, 1813
John Louis Taylor-1814, 1815, 1816
Calvin Jones ..1817,1818,1819
John A. Cameron ...1820, 1821
James Smith 1822
Robert Strange 1823, 1824
H. G. Burton 1825, 1826
L. D. Wilson 1827, 1828, 1829
R. D. Speight 1830, 1831
S. J. Baker 1832
S. F. Patterson 1833, 1834
L. H. Marsteller 1835, 1836
D. W. Stone 1837, 1838, 1839
S. J. Baker 1840
D. L. Crenshaw 1841
J. H. Wheeler 1842, 1843
P. W. Fanning 1844, 1845, 1846
Wm. F. Collins 1847, 1848, 1849
A. T. Jerkins 1830, 1851, 1852
Clement H. Jordan 1853, 1854
P. A. Holt 1855, 1856
Alfred Martin 1857, 1858
Lewis S. Williams 1859, i860
W. G. Hill 1861
E. F. Watson 1862, 1S63
John McCormick 1864
E. G. Reade 1865, 1866
R. W. Best 1867
Robert B. Vance .1868, 1869
Charles C. Clark 1S70, 1871
John Nichols 1872, 1873
George W. Blount 1874, 1875
Horace H. Munson 1876, 1877
William R. Cox 1878, 1879
Henry F. Grainger 1880, 1881
Robert Bingham 1882, 1884
Fabius H. Busbee 1885, 1886
Charles Robinson 1S87, 1888
Samuel H. Smith 1889, 1890
Hezekiah A. Gudger 1891, 1892
John W. Cotten ...1893, 1894
Francis M. Moye 1895, 1896
Walter E. Moore 1897, 1898
Richard J. Noble 1899
B. S. Royster 1900, 1901
'HE Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted
Masons of North Carolina convened in its One Hun-
dred and Fifteenth Annual Communication at the Masonic
Hall in the City of Raleigh, on Tuesday evening, January
14th, A. D., 1902, at 7:30 o’clock, p. M., and was opened in
ample form, it appearing that a constitutional number of
lodges were represented.
GRAND OFFICERS PRESENT.
M.\ W.\ B. S. ROYSTER
R.\ W.\ H. I. CLARK
“ W. S. LIDDELL
“ R. J. NOBLE
“ WILLIAM SIMPSON
“ JOHN C. DREWRY
W. THOMAS BELL
“ B. W. HATCHER
“ S. M. GATTIS
“ T. J. REED
“ ' A. B. ANDREWS, Jr
“ A. K. SMITH
“ E. W. O’HANLON
“ R. N. HACKETT
“ F. M. WINCHESTER
“ ROBERT H. BRADLEY
Grand Master.
Deputy Grand Master.
Senior Grand Warden.
as Junior Grand Warden.
Grand Treasurer.
Grand Secretary.
Grand Chaplain.
Grand Lecturer.
Senior Grand Deacon.
„ Junior Grand Deacon.
Grand Marshal.
Grand Sword Bearer.
Grand Pursuivant.
Grand Steward.
Grand Steward.
Grand Tiler.
Past Grand Officers present:
John Nichols, P. G. M.; Gen. Wm. R. Cox, P. G. M.; Samuel H.
Smith, P. G. M.; John W. Cotten, P. G. M.; F. M. Moye, P. G. M.;
R. J. Noble, P. G. M.; Thomas S. Kenan, P. D. G. M.; G. Rosenthal,
P. G. S.; W. H. Bain, P. G. S.; S. H. Rountree, P. J. G. W.
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Grand Representatives present :
California — John C. Drewry, of Raleigh, N. C.
Delaware — W. A. Withers, of Raleigh, N. C.
Oregon — John W. Cotten, of Tarboro, N. C.
New Jersey — W. H. Bain, of Raleigh, N. C.
New York — N. B. Broughton, of Raleigh, N. C.
Virginia — P. M. Moye, of Wilson, N. C.
Sweden — W. W. Willson, of Raleigh, N. C.
West Virginia — B. S. Royster, of Oxford, N. C.
Wisconsin — R. J. Noble, of Selma, N. C.
South Dakota — A. B. Andrews, Jr., of Raleigh, N. C.
Nebraska — Will X. Coley, of Henderson, N. C.
Nova Scotia — Thomas S. Kenan, of Raleigh, N. C.
Tennessee — John D. Currin, of Henderson, N. C.
Maryland — Thomas J. Reed, of Biltmore, N. C.
British Columbia— H. I. Clark, of Scotland Neck, N. C.
Idaho — Walter Clark, of Raleigh, N. C.
Indian Territory — Thomas S. Kenan, of Raleigh, N. C.
Kansas — M. C. S. Noble, of Chapel Hill, N. C.
Manitoba — Samuel H. Smith, of Winston, N. C.
Mississippi — E. F. Darnb, of Elizabeth City, N. C.
Bro. W. E. Jones, from the Committee on Credentials,
presented a report, which, on motion, was accepted and
recommitted, with instructions to record the names of the
Representatives as they presented themselves.
Royal White Hart No. 2...H. I. Clark, D. G. M., proxy for offi-
cers.
St. John’s “ 3-- -C. D. Bradham, W. M., and T H.
Green, proxy for S. and J. W.
Charity “ 5.. ..Richard W. Askew, proxy for officers.
Unanimity “ 7.— C. W. Morgan, proxy for officers.
Phoenix “ 8....T. T. HcGelvary, proxy for officers.
American George “ 17.... C. W. Grice, proxy for officers.
Phalanx “ 31.... C. E. Stenersen, S. W.. and J. O. Wal-
ker, proxies for W. M. and J. W.
Stokes “ 32. ...W. H. McMairy, J. W., proxy for
W. M. and S. W.
Davie “ 39. ...Geo. T. Parker, W. M., and proxy for
officers.
Hiram “ 40.. T. B. Womack, W. M., J. W. Coffy,
S. W., A. E. Glenn, J. W.
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Liberty - No. 45... R. N. Hackett, proxy for officers.
Hall “ 53.... W. D. Barnard, proxy for officers.
King Solomon “ 56.. S. J. Calvert, W. M., M. F. Stansill,
proxy for S. W.
Concord “ 58. ...Geo. L- Hobgood, proxy for officers.
Kilwinning “ 64. ...J, B. Griggs, proxy for officers.
Eagle “ 71. ...S. M. Gattis, proxy for officers.
Widow’s Son “ 75. ...W. D. Barnard, proxy for officers.
Greensboro “ 76....Jas, D. Glenn, proxy for officers.
Zion “ 81. ...P. M. Pearsall, proxy for W. M. and
J. W.
Fellowship “ 84. ...R. J. Noble, W. M., Elias Rose, S.W.,
London Creech, J. W.
Morning Star “ 85 . S. S. Gay, W. M., W. A. Smith, proxy
for S.W., J. J. Kemp, proxy for J. W.
Skewarkey “ 90.. ..S. W. Harrell, proxy for officers.
Western Star “ 91. ...T. R. Christian, proxy for officers.
Joseph Warren “ 92. ...H. E. Thompson, J. W., proxy for
officers.
Jerusalem “ 95....C. W. Morgan, proxy for officers.
St.John’s “ 96....Samuel H. Rountree, Sr., W. M.,
Albert H. Moore, proxy for S. W.
Neuse “ 97....J. H. Fleming, W. M.
Hiram “ 98. ...G. L- Peterson, S. W., F. N. Skinner,
proxy for J. W.
Fulton “ 99. ...A. L. Smoot, S. W., proxy for officers.
Columbus “ 102. ...T. H. Calvert, W. M.
Orr “ 104.. ,.J. B. Moore, Representative, Jas. H.
Harris, proxy for W. M. and S. W.
Perquimans “ 106.... C. W. Morgan, Master, and proxy for
officers.
Belmont “ 108. ...G. L. Peterson, proxy for officers.
Franklin “ i09....Chas, L. Abernathy, proxy for J. W.,
Wm. A. Mace, W. M., C. D Jones,
S. W.
Wayne “ 112....U. M. Gillikin, J. W., M. N. Epstein,
proxy for W. M., J. H. Hill, proxy
for S. W.
Person “ 113....C. H. Hunter, proxy for officers.
St. Albans “ 114 ... Frank Gough, J. P. McNeill, John
Ducket, proxies for officers.
Holly Springs “ 115....A. M. Johnson, S. W.
Mount Lebanon “ 117....C. E Blount, W. M., proxy for S. W.,
E. B. Mayo, J. W.
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Franklinton No. 123.. W. D. Spruill, B. J. Blackley, J. J.
Winston, proxies for officers.
Blackmer “ 127. ...J, B. Griggs, proxy for officers.
Radiance 132. ... L. V. Morrill, J. A. Edwards and B W.
Edwards, proxies for officers.
Mocksville “ 134.. . S. H. Smith, proxy for officers.
Leaksville “ 136.. .R. M. Hopper, proxy for officers.
Lincoln “ 137.. ..R. S. Reinhardt, W. M.
King Solomon “ 138. ...W. W. Willson, proxy for officers.
Carolina “ 141....J0I111 C. Drewry, proxy for officers.
Mount Vernon “ 143. ...C. C. Cheek, proxy for W. M.
Cherokee “ 146.... W. H. Bain, proxy for officers.
Palmyra “ 147. ...I. W. Taylor, proxy for officers.
Adoniram “ 149.. Jas. R. Heart, W. M., J. N. Wadkins,
J. W., J. S. Watkins, proxy for S.W.
Chalmers “ 151....J. R. Jones, proxy for officers.
White Stone “ 155. ...W. H. Hester, W. M., T. L. Hunni-
cutt, S.’ W., E- H. Kemp.
Rolesville “ 156... E. C. Allen andj. D. Peoples, proxies
for officers.
Mount Pleasant “ 157... J. D. R. Allen, J. W.
Knap of Reeds “ 158. ...W. L. Umstead, W. M.
Deep River “ 164.. ,.G. Rosenthal, proxy for officers.
Archer “ 165. ...J, W. Barnes, proxy for J. W., J. R.
Barnes, W. M., J. T. Barnes, S. W.
Winston “ 167. ...J, H. Foote, Jr., W. M., H. J. Thomas,
proxy for J. W.
George Washington “ 174.... Wi ley Goodwin, proxy for officers.
Polloksville “ 175. ...J, N. Foscue, proxy for officers.
Siloam “ 178.. ..Geo. L. Peterson, proxy for officers.
Carthage , “ 181....U. L. Spence, proxy for officers.
Sandy Creek “ 185.. .C. E. Cuptun, W. M., E. A. Burnett,
S W., J. L- Jackson, proxy for J.W.
Central Cross “ 187.... G. Rice, H. A. Hines, C. Benton.
Fair Bluff “ 190....E. F. Lamb, proxy for officers.
Mount Olivet “ 195....W. W. Baldwin, S. W., proxy for
officers.
Cleveland “ 202....S. E. Gidney,W. M., proxy for officers.
Roanoke “ 203... T. I. Gray, pi'Oxy for officers.
Berea “ 204.. ,,M. Blalock, W. M., B. D. Howard, S.W.
Mingo “ 206.. ..Eli R. Wilson, W. M., J. L- Jackson,
S. W.
Lebanon “ 207. ...Neill A. Thompson, W. M.
Thomasville “ 214. ...J. M. Dodson, W. M.
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William G. Hill No. 218....J. H. Mullins, W. M., S. J. Hinsdale,
S. W., J. F. Jordan, J. W.
Henderson - “ 229.... R. H. Powell, J. W., J. T. Alderman,
W. M., F. R. Harris, S. W.
Corinthian “ 230.. .Jno. G. Snyder, proxy for officers.
William T. Bain “ 231. ... W. R. Stephenson, W. M., K. J. Powell,
S. W., C. P. Rand, J. W.
Lenoir “ 233 .. Geo. L. Taylor, W. M., W. F Sutton,
J. w.
Atlantic “ 238.... W. D. Barnard, proxy for officers.
Rountree “ 243....J. E- Cameron, W. M., and proxy for
officers.
Monroe “ 244.. ..J. F. Bishop, proxy for officers.
Catawba “ 248. ...W. B. Gaither and S. L. Rhyne,
proxies for officers.
Oaks “ 255....T. A. Morrow, W. M., R. L. Smith,
S. W.
Kenly “ 257....Benj. Alford, proxy for officers.
Waynesville “ 259.. ..J. N. Peacock, proxy for officers.
Excelsior “ 261. ...C. B. Flournoy, Master, and proxy for
officers.
Gaston “ 263. ...C. E. Whitney, proxy for officers.
Farmington “ 265. ...C. F. Bahnson, W. M.
Durbin “ 266. ...J. T. Williams, proxy for officers.
Dunn’s Rock “ 267. ...W. W. Willson, proxy for officers.
Bingham “ 272.. ,.W. P. White, proxy for officers.
Watauga “ 273. ...Joe B. Clarke, W. M.
Beaver Dam “ 276.. . J. R. Kessinger, proxy for officers.
Green Level “ 277.. . W. B. Upchurch, J.W., L. D. Barkcum,
W. M., A. Herndon, S. W.
Greenville “ 284....R. Williams, proxy for W. M., J. M.
Reuss, proxy for S. and J. W.
Cedar Rock.... “ 286... .T. S. Collins, W. M., W. M. Boon,
S. W., T. P. Dean, proxy for J. W.
Salem “ 289....C. E. Bennett, proxy for officers.
Atlantic “ 294.... E. F. Lamb, proxy for officers.
Stonewall. “ 296._..Jas. W. Rose, proxy for officers.
Toisnot “ 298.. ..A. B. Andrews, Jr., proxy for officers.
Hunting Creek “ 299. ...C. H. M. Tulbert, proxy for officers.
Clay “ 301. ...C. F. Bahnson, proxy for officers.
Lillington “ 302. ...Dr. J. H. Withers, W. M., proxy for
officers.
Pleasant Hill “ 304... Samuel H. Rountree, proxy for offi-
cers.
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Laurinburg No. 305.. ..W. H. McLaurin, proxy for officers.
Patterson “ 307... J. Kenon Barnhardt, proxy for officers.
Hatcher - “ 310. ...Win. Nimant, proxy for officers.
New Lebanon “ 314 ...W. B. McKoy, proxy for officers.
Eureka “ 317. ...Dr. J. B. Griggs, W. M., C. W. Grice,
S. W.
Wilmington “ 319 . W. B. McKoy, P. M., proxy for W. M.
andj. VV., W. B. Cooper, S. W.
Selma “ 321 II. D. Hood, proxy for W. M.
White Hill “ 321. ...U. L- Spence, proxy for officers.
Falling Creek “ 325.. ..Jas. R. Brown, proxy for officers.
Winton “ 327.. J A. Northcott, W. M., proxy for offi-
cers.
Mattamuskeet “ 328... E. F. Lamb, proxy for officers.
Bayboro “ 331. ...W. D. Alford, W. M., C. M. Bobhitt,
proxy for S. W.
Ionic “ 337.. Ira T. Hunt, proxy for W. M. and
S. W., A. L. Capehart, proxy for
J. W.
Harmony “ 340 J. M. Perkins, J. W., and E. T. Craw-
ford, proxy for W. M., J. W. Rouse,
proxy for S. W.
Numa F. Reid “ 344. ...Geo. A. Matton, proxy for officers.
Stanly “ 348....S. B. Clutch, proxy for officers.
Durham “ 352. ...Clinton W. Toms, proxy for officers.
Moravian “ 353-- R. N. Hackett, proxy for officers.
Snow “ 363....T. R. Christman, proxy for officers.
Craighead “ 366. ...S, A. Johnston, proxy for officers.
Gastonia “ 369....F. A. Castners, proxy for officers.
State Line “ 375 - Geo P. Turner and L. J. Turner, for
the lodge.
Youngsville “ 377... L. PI. Allred, S. W., R. E. Timber-
lake, J. W.
Seaboard “ 378.. J. M. Balmer, W. M., for lodge.
Granville “ 380. ...S. N. Little, proxy for M. and S. W.
Shawnee “ 382... W. E- Wilson, proxy for officers.
Reidsville “ 384. ...R. H. Bradley, proxy for officers.
Pigeon River “ 386. ...J. N. Peacock, proxy for officers.
Mooresboro..... “ 388. ...H. C. Burries, proxy for W. M., S. and
J. W.
Lebanon “ 391. ...S. H. Cotton, proxy for W. M. and
3. W., J. T. Bynum, J. W.
Tally Ho “ 393 J- E. Duncan, S. W., and W. B. Cash,
proxy for officers.
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
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Cape Fear . ... No. 394.. ,.J. C. Adams, proxy for officers.
Orient “ 395. _..W. D. McMillan, Master, J. A. Munds,
proxy for J. W.
Oxford “ 396....S. W. Minor, W. M., T. L. Booth S. W.,
F. P. Hobgood, Jr., J. VV.
Bald Creek “ 397. ...C. P. Edwards, W. M.,J. B. Young,
proxy for officers.
Conoho “ 399. ...T. I. Gray, proxy for officers
Joppa “ 401. ...W. J. Andrews, proxy for officers.
Dobson “ 402.... H. E. Jones, proxy for W. M.
Siler City “ 403. ...C. C. Cheek, proxj' for officers
University “ 408. ...M, C. S. Noble, W. M., Luco Lloyd,
proxy for J. W.
Rockville “ 411 ...V. A. J. Glover, W. M., J. D. Finch,
proxy for S. and J. W.
Henry F. Grainger “ 412. ...F. P. Hobgood, Jr., proxy for officers.
Louisburg “ 413.— J. A. Thomas, proxy forj. W., Geo.
S. Baker, proxy for W. M., J. W.
Hollingsworth, S. W.
New Hope “ 415. ...A. P. Hall, proxy for officers.
Maxton “ 417. ...J. T. Pool, S. W., proxy for officers.
Potecasi “ 418.. ..R. W. Joyner, W. M.
Greenwood “ 419.... W. E. Jones, proxy for officers.
Boonville “ 421. ...F. D. Jones, proxy for officers.
Baltimore “ 424. ...F. D. Jones, proxy for officers.
Eastern Star “ 425.. ,C. F. Bahnson, proxy for officers.
Oconee “ 427.... A. B. Andrews, Jr., proxy for officers.
Sea Side “ 429... ,W. E. Jones, proxy for officers.
Rockyford “ 430... John C. Drewrj^, proxy for officers.
Relief “ 431. ...Wade H. Royal, proxy for W. M.,
J. W. Holmes, proxy for J. W.,
U. F. Wallace, proxy for S. W.
Vanceboro “ 433.. ..J. N. Stubbs, S. W., proxy for officers.
Star “ 437. ...W. L. Freeman, W. M., proxy for
officers.
Marble Spring “ 439... .R. H. Bradlejy proxy for officers.
Clingman “ 440. ...W. J. Andrews, proxy for officers.
Roper “ 443-.. .A. J. Parker, proxy for S. W., J. R.
Kessinger, proxy for W. M. and
J- W.
Biltmore “ 446. T. J. Reed, W. M., J. A. Halberton,
J. W., proxies for officers.
Enfield “ 447. ...A. S. Harrison, W. M., J. C Braswell,
J. W.
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Ingold No. 448.. Geo. L. Peterson, proxy for officers.
Polenta “ 450.. .Claude Stephenson, proxy for officers.
Elkin “ 454.. ..R. H. Bradley, proxy for officers.
Rusk “ 456.. ,.P. C. l.ayne, proxy for officers.
Henrietta “ 460. ... D. B. Johnson, proxy for W. M., S. and
J. W.
Currituck “ 463.. ,,S. M. Beasley and D. W. Woodhouse,'
proxies for officers.
Gulf “ 465. ...Frank D. Jones, proxy for W. M. and
S. W., M. J. Jordan, J. W.
Millingport “ 468.. B. W. Hatcher, proxy for officers.
Sanford “ 469.. W. A. Crabtree and T. L. Bass, proxies
for officers.
Scotland Neck “ 470.. H. E. Biggs, proxy for officers.
Grassy Knob 471....C. H. M. Tulbert, proxy for officers.
Sonoma “ 472....W. E- Jones, proxy for officers.
Lexington “ 473.. . H. B. Varner, proxy for officers.
St. Paul’s “ 474 J. L. Bundy, proxy for officers.
Big Lick “ 476 . Dr. F. E. Hartsell, W. M.
Eagle Springs “ 477. ...W. W Willson, proxy for officers.
Four Oaks “ 478.. J. A. Ford, J. W., proxy for officers.
Mill Creek “ 480....B. W. Hatcher, proxy for officers.
Spring Hope “ 481 J. E. Hocutt, proxy for W. M., L. H.
Joyner, proxy for S. W., A. T.
Morgan, J. W.
Saluda “ 482. ...E. Buncombe Goelet, W. M., W. C.
Rotherlson, S. W., B. T. Boone,
J. W.
Aberdeen “ 484.. . Geo. E- Beard, proxy for officers.
Statesville “ 487.. ,.S. L. Parks, Master, and proxy for
officers.
Rich Square “ 488.. . Dr. R. W. Joyner, proxy for officers.
Buggaboo , “ 490... John C. Drewry, Representative.
Thomas M. Holt “ 492... \V. P. White, W. M., and proxy for
officers.
Rockingham “ 495.. .J. L. Bundy, proxy for officers.
Mooresville “ 496.. ..E- W. Jones, proxy for officers.
Ayden “ 498. ...J, J. May, S. W., proxy for officers.
Creedmoor “ 499.... J. F. Sanderford, W. M., S. L. Moss,
J. L. Reed, proxy for J. W.
Raleigh “ 500.. ..H. C. Butler, W. M., F. F. Harding,
S. W., W. R. Smith, J. W.
Red Springs “ 501. ...R. N. Simms, proxy for W. M. and
J. W., L. M. Cook, S. W.
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Cookville No.
Buies Creek “
Luke McGlaughan “
Roberdell “
Belhaven “
Orlando “
502. . B. W. Hatcher, proxy for W. M.
503 -Rev. A. N. Campbell, VV. M.
504.. . J. R. Matthews, proxy for officers.
507 . J. L. Bundy, proxj^ for officers.
509 J. R. Kessinger, proxy for officers.
516. . ..J no. C. Tynes, W. M.
W. E. Jones,
H. F. Smith,
W. T. Harding,
Committee.
A very interesting communication was read from Bro.
F. D. Winston, Junior Grand Warden. On motion of
Brother Biggs, the thanks of the Grand Lodge was ex-
tended to Brother Winston for this valuable document,
which was ordered spread upon the minutes.
Windsor, N. C., Jan. 10, 1902.
Most Worshipful Grand Master , and Brethren of the
Grand Lodge:
Some weeks ago it was my good fortune to spend an
evening with the brethren of Greenville Lodge. During
that visit I learned some facts relating to the lodge at Crown
Point, in Pitt County. The brethren will recall the inter-
esting correspondence had on that subject which is found
in the Proceedings for the years 1895 and 1896. I learned
these facts from Bro. Maj, Henry Harding, an enthusiastic
Mason and a most useful citizen. I give you his narrative
verbatim :
“About the year 1889 I had the honor of presiding over
Greenville Lodge No. 284, as its Worshipful Master. When
I was serving in that capacity, there came to the town of
Greenville a brother from the State of Massachusetts, who was
offering for sale a work that purported to be ‘The Colonial
History of Free Masonry in America.’ From the book I
learned that the first lodge in the Colony of North Carolina
was instituted at Crown Point, in Pitt County, under a
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dispensation from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. I,
at once, went to work to locate the site of this old lodge.
I made diligent inquiry of every old person I could find —
white and black — as to the location of Crown Point, in Pitt
County. I was about to give up the search. On a visit to
my brother, Rev. Israel Harding, at Washington, N. C., I
mentioned the matter to him. He told me that when he
was a small boy, about 1835, he had heard Mrs. Col. Sam-
uel Vines, then a very old lady, say, that when a small girl,
she had the honor of meeting George Washington and shak-
ing his hand ; and that she, at that time, was visiting the
family of Colonel Allen, at Crown Point, in Pitt County.
My brother further stated that James Hanrohan, of Pitt
County, was the only living- representative of Colonel Allen’s
family, he being his grandson. I visited the home of James
Hanrohan, about twenty miles distant from Greenville,
and from him I learned that his grandfather, Colonel Al-
len, lived about fifteen miles from Greenville, on the direct
road from that place to New Bern, that he was possessed of
‘much wealth in land and slaves, and was quite a Baron in
his day. At that time there were only three courts held in
the Colony of North Carolina, at Hillsboro, at Halifax, and
at New Bern. The judges and the lawyers in passing from
Halifax to New Bern and in returning always stopped to
spend the night at Colonel Allen’s. His house became so no-
ted as a resting place for the weary traveler, it was known
as Colonel Allen’s Inn. It was subsequently called Crown
Point Inn, in memory of the old Allen homestead in New
York, which was afterwards famous as the scene of one of
Ethan Allen’s victories in 1775. Mr. James Hanrohan recol-
lected that there was in his grandfather’s mansion a room
which his grandmother called ‘The Masons’ Room,’ from
which the children and servants were kept by stories of
butting goats, coffins and other hob-goblins. Mr. Hanro-
han took me to the site of old Crown Point Inn and the ex-
act site of the first lodge in North Carolina is now located be-
yond controversy. About this time there came to the post-
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office in Greenville a letter addressed to the ‘Master of
Masons in Pitt County. ’ The letter was handed to me. It
was from Miss A. M. Holiday of Upper Marlboro, West-
moreland County, Maryland The letter recited that she
was very old and destitute, and having been told that the
Masons were a noble fraternity of men, and conspicuous for
their acts of charity, she had presumed to make an appeal
to their generosity. She stated that she had in her posses-
sion a diploma or certificate of membership, given to her
grandfather, who was a member of the first lodge in North
Carolina, at Crown Point, in Pitt County, North Carolina.
She stated that in her need she would gladly take any sum
we felt willing to give for the old document. By order of
Greenville Lodge, I mailed her a check for a good amount,
the old document came to hand, and is now in possession of
Greenville Lodge.
“A subsequent research into the history of Crown Point
Lodge reveals the fact that this lodge paid its Grand Lodge
dues for the years 1776 and 1777 to the Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts. The records of the Grand Lodge of Massa-
chusetts were lost during the War of the Revolution and the
exact date of the institution of Crown Point Lodge can not
be ascertained. I further find from a diary kept by George
Washington, while on his tour through the South, after the
war, that he did pass through Greenville, on his way from
Halifax to New Bern, and that he did stay all night with
Colonel Allen at Crown Point and was accompanied by Col-
onel Allen to New Bern the next day. Mr. Hanrohan had
a copy of this diary.”
With the permission of the brethren of Greenville
Lodge, I have engaged a competent artist to make me a
handsome copy of the interesting document. I had hoped
to have it completed, and properly framed, to present to
the Grand Lodge at its present Communication. There is
some delay. I shall send it as soon as it is received and I
ask your acceptance of the very interesting paper.
My official duties keep me from the Grand Lodge when
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I anticipated presenting a scheme for collecting historical
incidents connected with the early Masonic life in our State.
There is much activity in collecting historical matter in the
State, and I am sure the early records and traditions contain
much that is valuable and instructive from our standpoint.
I am also denied my annual intercourse with you, which for
years has been helpful and delightful. I hope a conflict of
duties will not again rob me of these pleasures.
Most sincerely and fraternally yours,
Francis D. Winston,
Junior Grand Warden.
Grand Master’s Address.
The Grand Master delivered his address, which was,
on motion, referred to a special committee, which the Deputy
Grand Master announced as follows : Past Grand Masters
John W. Cotten, F. M. Moye, and R. J. Noble.
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina.
Brethren: — Masonry in North Carolina has passed
another mile-stone in its onward and upward march for the
betterment of man’s temporal condition. In the name of
that charity of which the Apostle spoke, I welcome you to
the One Hundred and Fifteenth Annual Communication of
the Grand Dodge of North Carolina. Think of it, my breth-
ren, for more than an hundred years men have come from all
sections of the State to attend these Annual Communications
and to counsel together for the good of Masonry. An insti-
tution which has lived so long and so usefully is worthy of
our deepest interest and tenderest affection. The history of
this Grand Body is an important part of the State’s history.
When I look around me and see faces of some of the men
who have had to do with Masonry in the past,. I am not sur-
prised that an honorable record is her blessed heritage and
a most glorious future awaits her.
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The work of the first year of the new century is to be
reviewed, plans are to be considered for the better govern-
ment of the Craft in the coming years and we are to stimu-
late and encourage each other to place our blessed Order
upon that high plane it so well deserves to occupy, and to
promote peace and prosperity from one end of the State to
the other. In coming to perform such high offices and
sacred duties, I beseech you to lay aside all bitterness, prej-
udice, and dissension, and let us all with one accord seek to
see the right and have the courage to do it.
I have labored diligently and come now to give an
account of the administration of the high office to which you
have so kindly promoted me.
STATE OF THE CRAFT.
During the year I have been called upon only a few
times to straighten out little differences between lodges and
individual brethren. The true spirit of Masonry seems to
be abroad in North Carolina and I am constrained to believe
that we are entering upon an era of great prosperity and
usefulness. We have increased in numbers and this increase
is made up of the best type of North Carolina manhood.
Quality has not been sacifificed in the interest of quantity.
Our brightest and best young men are seeking admission
and I am rejoiced at their coming. We can help them and
they can help this grand old Fraternity, which, for more
than an hundred years, has stood for peace, pi'osperity, char-
ity, virtue, liberty, and freedom. From all sections of the
State the glad tidings have come and my heart is filled with
joy unspeakable.
The report of the Grand Secretary is especially gratify-
ing. It shows a large increase in membership and revenue.
One of the most encouraging features of the past year’s work
is that the receipts show an increase of more than $700, over
the previous year. Our most efficient Grand Secretary de-
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serves the thanks of the brethren for his labors in this re-
spect.
The Grand Lecturers have been busy and the brethren
are still striving- to obtain and practice the authorized work.
Weak lodges have been strengthened, dark places have been
lighted up, till from one end of the State to the other is heard
the progress of Masonry. There are a few lodges which
have not caught the inspiration, but it is spreading, my
brethren, and it will not be long before more than twenty-
five thousand “good men and true ” of the Old North State
will proudly march under the banners of Freemasonry.
“ So mote it be.”
DISPENSATIONS FOR NEW LODGES.
January 23 — Barnardsville Lodge, Barnardsville, Bun-
combe County.
February 23 — Caroleen Lodge, Caroleen, Rutherford
County.
March 18- Lone Hickory Lodge, Lone Hickory, Yadkin
County.
May 31 — Lattimore Lodge, Lattimore, Cleveland
County.
August 7 — Belhaven Lodge, Belhaven, Beaufort County.
August 10 — Aulander Lodge, Aulander, Bertie County.
August 16 — Farmville Lodge, Farm ville, Pitt County.
September 3 — Sylva Lodge, Sylva, Jackson County.
The Charter of Belmont Lodge No. 108, at Faison, Dup-
lin County, was restored upon petition setting forth satis-
factory reasons for such restoration.
GRAND LECTURERS.
The reports forwarded to me during the year by the
Grand Lecturer and Assistant Grand Lecturers have been
very gratifying. Wherever they have been, an increase of
interest has resulted and the lodges have been revived. I
attribute much of the growth of the Order during the year
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to the work of the Lecturers. I think I may safely assert
that without a single exception the lodges lectured during
the year have shown an increase in membership. This is the
natural result of the brethren becoming better acquainted
with the work and being able to confer the degrees in an
intelligent and impressive manner.
It is well known to all of us that there are a number of
lodges in the State that are so weak financially as to render it
a matter of impossibility for them to secure the services of a
Lecturer. The result is that they lose interest and become dis-
heartened because they are not “Bright Masons” and are un-
able to give the work as well as the members of stronger
lodges. These conditions ought not to exist. This Grand
Lodge is able to make provision for the weak of its household
and by the expenditure of a small amount of money give the
authorized work to every lodge in the State within a few
years. This is a matter of great importance, in my opinion.
My official visitations during the year have been confined
very largely to the country lodges and I think I am some-
what familiar with the needs of the Craft. Think on this
matter, my brethren, and let us do something at this session
of the Grand Lodge to put the authorized work within the
reach of every lodge in the State. When we shall have
taken this step forward a new era of prosperity will dawn
upon Masonry in North Carolina.
DISPENSATIONS.
One of the tedious, and sometimes trying, duties of the
Grand Master is the passing upon applications for special
dispensations.
The year just closed has had its full share of these appli-
cations. Many of them were unnecessary and a copy of the
latest Code would have saved many of the brethren time
and trouble.
In passing upon these requests I have endeavored to
keep within the rules of this Grand Body, and when in doubt
I have consulted brethren t of larger and longer experience
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in such matters. Dispensations have been promptly granted
in all instances where the law and the best interests of the
Craft authorized and suggested such action. I have been
forced to deny a few requests because they did not measure
up to the foregoing standard. In the interest of time and
space I omit a list of such dispensations.
DECISIONS.
1. A party who enlisted in the Volunteer Army during
1899, and who returned to his home in this State in 1901, is
eligible to the degrees. Act of Congress provides that vol-
unteer soldiers shall lose none of their rights of citizenship.
I regard Masonic and civil residence in the same light.
2. A member of a lodge who produces the secretary’s
receipt that he has paid all lodge dues and against whom no
charges are pending, is entitled to dimit, regardless of the
fact that he does not intend to apply to another lodge for
membership.
3. When the Charter of a lodge is restored, all members
of said lodge in good standing at the time it became dormant
or surrendered its Charter become members of such lodge
upon such restoration of Charter, and no petition for such
membership is required.
4. When a lodge restores to membership one who has
been suspended, it can not thereafter rescind its action re-
storing such member. If he be guilty of un-Masonic con-
duct, the proper way to deal with him would be to prefer
charges, and try him.
5. The names of candidates whose applications are to be
balloted on should not be printed in notices of meetings sent
by a lodge to its members.
6. Every petition for initiation shall lie over at least one
month before being balloted upon. This is true even if a
lodge meets every week and notwithstanding the provision
of Section 3, Article 6, By-laws for Government of Lodges.
Section 3, Article 10, of the By-laws of the Grand Lodge
controls.
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In addition to the foregoing decisions, a great many
questions were asked by the brethren which were answered
by referring them to some section of the Code or a decision
approved by the Grand Lodge. In this connection permit
me to say that it is very difficult for the Grand Master to
make decisions when he is entirely in the dark as to what
the Grand Lodge has said upon similar questions. Some
means ought to be provided whereby the Grand Master
could have the benefit of what the Grand Lodge has decided
to be the law in certain cases. The cost of a digest of the
decisions of the Grand Masters and the action thereon by
the Grand Lodge would not be very great and its benefit is
apparent to every one who wishes to be posted as to the
law of the Order.
SUSPENSIONS.
I am pained to report that during the year I have deem-
ed it necessary to suspend the Masters of two lodges. Be-
fore doing so I obtained all the information possible and my
opinion was that the best interests of our beloved Order de-
manded such action.
On the 25th November, 1901, I suspended John C. Cul-
breth, Master of Lebanon Lodge No. 391, on charges sup-
ported by special report of investigation made by Assistant
Grand Secretary W. W. Willson; on the 3rd December,
1901, I suspended W. A. Nichols, Master of Notla Lodge
No. 312, on charges supported by certified evidence. Each
of these parties have been served with a copy of my letter
suspending him and notifying him to be present at this
Communication of the Grand Lodge to answer the charges.
I submit herewith all the papers, charges, etc., relating to
the two cases.
SISTER GRAND JURISDICTIONS.
I am pleased to report that the most cordial relations
exist between this and other Grand Lodges. During the
year I have had considerable correspondence with Grand
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Masters of other jurisdictions and in every instance I was
the recipient of the most courteous and fraternal expres-
sions of regard and good will for myself personally and for
the Craft of this jurisdiction. During the month of August
last 1 received official request for the establishment of
closer fraternal relations between this Grand Lodge and the
Grand Lodge of New Zealand. Upon investigation it gave
me great pleasure to comply with the request, and I ap-
pointed Right Worshipful C. J. W. Griffiths, Deputy Grand
Master, as the Representative of North Carolina near the
Grand Lodge of New Zealand. Upon my request Worship-
ful Thomas Bell, our Worthy Grand Chaplain, was commis-
sioned as the Representative of the Grand Lodge of New
Zealand near this Grand Lodge.
I beg to make acknowledgments for fraternal courte-
sies to the Most Worshipful Grand Masters of Tennessee,
Arkansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Vir-
ginia.
The Representative of this Grand Lodge in the juris-
diction of Texas having recently died, at the request of the
Most Worshipful Grand Master of Texas I commissioned
Bro. W. S. Fly, a member of the Supreme Court of Texas,
and whose maternal ancestors were North Carolinians, the
Representative of this State in that jurisdiction.
FRATERNAL DEAD.
It becomes my sad duty to announce the death of the
following brethren of sister Grand Jurisdictions, who were
prominent Craftsmen, enjoying the love and esteem of all
who knew them: on Feb. 23, 1901, Right Worshipful Wil-
liam Reynolds Singleton, Grand Secretary of the District of
Columbia; July 24, 1901, Most Worshipful John W. Champ-
lin, Past Grand Master of Michigan; Aug. 31, 1901, Right
Worshipful Joseph Hayes Thompson, Grand Treasurer of
Minnesota; Sept. 24, 1901, Right Worshipful John Logan
Power, Grand Secretary of Mississippi; Sept. 14, 1901,
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Brother William McKinley, President of the United States;
Oct. 15, 1901, Most Worshipful William L. Webber, Past
Grand Master of Michigan; Nov. 12, 1901, Most Worshipful
Bellamy S. Sutton, Past Grand Master of Indiana; Dec. 6,
1901, Most Worshipful James Dallas O’Meara, Past Grand
Master of Manitoba.
While we mourn with the brethren of these several
sister Grand Jurisdictions over their losses and extend to
them our deepest sympathy, we are rejoiced that God, in
His mercy, has been very good to us during the past year.
No crepe lies upon the altar of this Grand Lodge.
SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
There has been but one Special Communication of the
Grand Lodge during the year and this was held at the Ox-
ford Orphan Asylum in connection with the celebration of
St. John’s Day, June 22nd. These celebrations have be-
come the established feasts of the good people of Granville
and adjoining counties. The attendance is large each year
and the Asylum is always benefitted. Masons and those
who are not Masons come together on these occasions, see
the great future of the little ones, hear their inspiring
music, inspect the Institution, learn something of its work,
and go away inspired with renewed love and a deeper in-
terest in the work of helping the distressed.
The Grand Lodge, in my opinion, should become inter-
ested in celebrations and make them a part of the regular
work of the Order. Every lodge in the State ought to send
a representative and in this way the Asylum and its great
usefulness would be brought directly to the attention of the
brethren of the State.
THE ORPHAN ASYLUM.
The reports of the Directors, Treasurer, and Superin-
tendent of the Oxford Orphan Asylum will be submitted in
regular order.
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These reports are made and printed that the brethren
may see arid know how the affairs of this great Institution
are being managed. It is your Asylum and it behooves you
as the representatives of this great Fraternity to get in closer
touch with this noble charity which is doing so much for
the helpless ones of the State. My heart’s desire is to see
the Oxford Orphan Asylum the ' greatest institution of its
kind in the land. It has accomplished much in the face of
adversity, and, now that days of prosperity have come to
it, let us join in hallelujahs of praise and thanksgiving.
The work being done .there is of a high order. The boys and
girls are taught to do something and do it well. It is the
constant aim of the management to go forward. At the
last meeting of the Directors arrangements were made to
care for about thirty more children. With this increase of
numbers will come an increase of burden and responsibility.
Every man in the State who is worthy of the honorable
name of Mason would be prouder that he is such could he
occasionally visit the Asylum and feel the inspiring influ-
ences that pervade the entire premises. I beseech you, my
brethren, to know more of this work. Visit Oxford if you
can possibly do so ; if you can not do so, subscribe to The
Orphans' Friend and through its columns learn to love and
cherish the glorious work of saving boys and girls and
pointing them to higher and better lives.
The work is being enlarged, much-needed buildings
are to be erected, school rooms must be remodeled, im-
proved hospital service is to be provided, and many other
things done to make the Institution what it should be. All
of these improvements will cost money. Let us be liberal
with our contributions and enjoy the satisfaction of having
given to the cause of pure charity.
If we are unable to give much in the shape of money,
let us all give to the Asylum our love and loyal support
speak a good word for it whenever we have an opportu-
nity of doing so and let no occasion pass without doing
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a kindly act. Many burdens have been lightened by the
kindly sympathy and encouragement of our friends.
“No human being can tell the effect of a single word or
action. ” In history we can trace the development of small
causes into great results. “No one can measure the in-
fluence we can exert in a righteous cause.”
RECOMMENDATIONS.
I have confidence in the wisdom of this Grand Lodge
to do everything that may be needful and for the best in-
terests of the Craft and will, therefore, refrain from intrud-
ing upon you my personal views ‘to any considerable ex-
tent. My interest in the welfare and more extensive spread
of the influences of Masonry prompt me to call your atten-
tion to one or two matters that should be considered at this
session.
First. The Grand Lodge should arrange for the em-
ployment, at a fixed salary, of one or two Lecturers whose
duty it shall be to visit and lecture such lodges as the Grand
Master and Grand Secretary may direct. In fixing the
compensation of these Lecturers let it be understood that
the lodges lectured shall furnish board and lodging while
the Lecturers are with them. I believe the interest in
Masonry would be increased beyond conception and the
membership doubled in a few years by some such plan as
I have suggested.
Second. The laws and decisions of the Grand Lodge
should be carefully codified and published in convenient
and inexpensive form. A book of this kind would be of
incalculable benefit to the Craft and the Grand Masters
would have something to guide them in the discharge of
the duties of their office.
I make these recommendations, or rather suggestions,
because my experience during the past two years leads me
to conclude that great good will result from their adoption.
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FINALLY.
The time has come for me to .surrender the gavel to my
successor, to retire from the highest office in the gift of
this Grand Lodge, and in doing so I bear with me the deep-
est feelings of gratitude to the brethren for their uniform
kindness and courtesy. In the discharge of my official
duties I have had the hearty co-operation and loyal support
of my fellow-officers and the Craft generally. At times I
have been perplexed over some of the problems that con-
fronted me, but the brethren have been true and the right
has prevailed. My single purpose has been to do all in my
power for the betterment and upbuilding of our beloved
Order, and if any measure of success has attended my
efforts I am most happy.
In the years that yet remain for me, my memory will
continually remind me of my association with you as Grand
Master and I shall delight to hold sweet communion with
the recollections of these two years, so full of joy and
pleasure to me.
Masonry, to me, means more than the formal ceremo-
nies of lodge meetings and the conferring of the several
degrees. It stands for all that is virtuous, patriotic, noble,
brave, and good ; the embodiment of perfection in human
organizations.
I shall endeavor at all times to give to it my best service.
You have honored me and again I beg to assure you of my
grateful appreciation of your goodness and generosity.
“May the blessings of Heaven rest upon you, may
brotherly love prevail and every moral and social virtue
unite and cement you.”
Fraternally submitted,
B. S. ROYSTER,
Grand Master.
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Grand Treasurer’s Report.
The Grand Treasurer presented the following report,
which was read and referred to the Finance Committee :
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina:
I have the honor to submit herewith my Eleventh
Annual Report of the receipts and disbursements of the
Grand Lodge for the Masonic year ending Jan. 14, 1902.
There has been a gratifying increase in the receipts of
the Grand Lodge for the past ten years, which is due entire-
ly to the zeal and efficiency of our worthy Grand Secretary.
When I assumed the office of Grand Treasurer, and for
many years prior thereto, there was a deficit at the end of
the year. This, I am glad to say, is no longer the case.
I have the honor to report a cash balance on hand of more
than five thousand dollars, with no outstanding indebted-
ness, all demands upon the Treasurer having been promptly
met, and all this in face of the fact that the Grand Lodge has
contributed $3,500 to the support of the Oxford Orphan
Asylum.
It will be observed that there is an increase in receipts
from dues in the last five years of nearly 100 per cent.,
notwithstanding that there is not a corresponding increase
in membership. This is another evidence of the efficiency
of our Grand Secretary.
Following is an itemized statement of the receipts and
disbursements of the present year.
WILLIAM SIMPSON, Grand Treasurer,
In account with the Grand Lodge of North Carolina.
1901
Dr.
Jan. 8
To balance on hand as per last report
$ 4,868 30
12
To cash from Samuel H. Rountree
I OO
14
To interest from Rllington note
80 00
April 30
To cash from John C. Drewry, Grand Secretary....
863 40
Oct. 21
To cash from John C. Drewry, Grand Secretary....
873 60
Nov. 23
To cash from John C. Drewry', Grand Secretary....
744 60
Dec. 5
To cash from John C. Drewry, Grand Secretary....
639 00
Amount carried forward
8 , 069 90
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1902
Jan. 1
3
7
7
7
9
9
9
Amount brought forward
To cash from John C. Drewry, Grand Secretary....
To cash from John C. Drewry, Grand Secretary....
To cash from John C. Drewry, Grand Secretary..
To cash from John C. Drewry, Grand Secretary....
To cash from John C. Drewry, Grand Secretary....
To cash from John C. Drewry, Grand Secretary....
To cash from John C. Drewry, Grand Secretary....
To cash from John C. Drewry, Grand Secretary....
$ 8,069 9°
833 29
537 36
840 00
885 00
973 80
204 00
1 14 50
139 00
12,596 85
I9OI
Cr.
Tan. 10
By cash paid Samuel H. Smith, P. G. M
$ 8 70
IO
By cash paid R. }. Noble, P. G. M
5 50
IO
By cash paid W. N. Foster, G. L .
15 60
IO
By cash paid Walter F- Moore, P. G. M
5 00
IO
By cash paid L. M. Totten
IOO OO
IO
By cash paid J. B. Griggs, G. D
26 00
IO
By cash paid F. M. Winchester, G. S
14 60
IO
By cash paid E- W. O’Hanlon
10 05
IO
By cash paid R. N. Hackett, G. S
16 55
IO
By cash paid B. S. Royster, G. M
147 10
II
By cash paid H. I. Clark, D. G. M
20 OO
II
By cash paid T. J. Reed, G. J. D
15 25
II
By cash paid Orphans’ Friend (printing)
690 68
II
By cash paid W. S. Liddell
16 50
II
By cash paid B. W. Hatcher, G. L
16 00
II
By cash paid John W. Cotten, P. G. M..
9 50
II
By cash paid Wm. W. Willson, Ass’t. Sec
50 00
II
By cash paid Chas. F. Bahnson, G. L
12 OO
II
By cash paid Thos. Bell, G. C
6 25
12
By cash paid John C. Drewry, G. S
700 OO
12
By cash paid Henry Alston, janitor
6 00
12
By cash paid R. H. Bradley, G. Tiler
45 93
12
By cash paid R. H. Bradley, G. Librarian
25 00
12
By cash paid Samuel H. Rountree
8 00
29
By cash paid News and Observer
4 00
29
By cash paid Edwards & Broughton
7 25
Feb. 5
By cash paid Jno. A. Collins.
2 50
12
By cdsh paid G. Rosenthal, Treasurer
2,000 00
14
By cash paid Thomas & Campbell
7 50
18
By cash paid postage
10 00
18
By cash paid F. M. Moye, P. G. M
8 95
20
By cash paid Morning Post
4 00
23
By cash paid W. S. Liddell, S. G. W
14 30
23
By cash paid B. W. Hatcher, G. L
12 00
23
By cash paid F. J. Hage
3 50
23
By cash paid Thos. W. Blake
I OO
March 6
By cash paid W. S. Primrose & Co
132 OO
21
By cash paid Capital Printing Co
21 60
21
By cash paid G. Rosenthal, Treasurer
80 00
21
By cash paid G. Rosenthal., Treasurer.
IOO 00
Amount carried forward
4,378 81
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Amount brought forward
$ 4,378 81
April 4
By cash paid postage on Proceedings
40 30
6
By cash paid express on Proceedings
45 29
8
By cash paid Raleigh Times
3 75
II
By cash paid Alfred Williams & Co
5 05
II
By cash paid postage
I9 20
15
By cash paid Southern Express Co
11 83
30
By cash paid John C. Drewry, G. S
30 26
May 1
By cash paid John A. Collins, Chairman
IOO OO
2
By cash paid Orphans’ Friend (printing)
658 06
3
By cash paid Edwards & Broughton
22 50
3
By cash paid M. W. White
40 30
3
By cash paid postage
20 OO
June 10
By cash paid Wm. Simpson, G. T
75 00
IO
By cash paid Wm. G. Hill Lodge
50 00
24
By cash paid R. H. Bradley, G. Tiler
16 80
24
By cash paid Rev. Thos. Bell, G. C
3 50
24
By cash paid B. 8. Royster, G. M
44 25
Oct. 24
By cash paid postage
30 OO
Nov. 2
By cash paid W. E Jones
25 00
Dec. 6
By cash paid N. C. Home Insurance Co
13 00
6
By cash paid R. H. Bradley, G. Librarian
25 00
l6
1902
By cash paid G. Rosenthal, Treasurer
I , OOO OO
Jan. 1
By cash paid Wm. Simpson, G. T -
75 00
I
By cash paid Wm. W. Willson
16 10
I
By cash paid G. Rosenthal, Treasurer
500 OO
I
By.cashpaid R. H. Bradley, G. Librarian
25 00
14
By cash on hand
5,322 85
$12,596 85
All of which is fraternally submitted,
Wm. Simpson,
Grand Treasurer.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Grand Secretary’s Report.
The Grand Secretary presented the following report,
which was read and referred to the Finance Committee :
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina;
In submitting herewith my Sixth Annual Report, I
take this opportunity to preface this communication with a
few words of fraternal greeting and brotherly congratula-
tions. With the dawn of a new year I feel that each one of
us shares the earnest hope which speaks to my heart to-
night, and which shall actuate and encourage me, as I know
it will inspire you, to stretch out the hand of activity to con-
tinue to build up Masonry in North Carolina, and to draw
within its fold those whom we have reason to believe will
become earnest, devoted, consistent, and bright members
of our Order. When I reflect upon our opportunities to
uplift and raise to a higher level in life so many of our com-
rades in ordinary business and social life through the ele-
vating and strengthening influences of Masonry — men who
by nature and education and desire could be made acceptable
and bright Masons — I can not refrain from asking the
question, “Have we, as members of the Order, been doing
all that we could in the spirit of brotherly love and good
fellowship to build up our Order in this State?” We all
know that there does come a time in our lives when our
hearts hunger and yearn for a true friend, a friend into
whose eyes we can look and see that his heart beats in
unison with ours, that he understands and properly appre-
ciates us, and realizes the true conditions of our heart, and
responds to them, soul to soul. True Masonry, therefore,
should draw men closer together and make us feel that we
are our brother’s keeper in a measure. It should be in
every community where it exists a living, vital, active force
for good. Let us all endeavor during this new year to make
it so, more so than it has ever been before in our respective
communities.
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It is with pleasure that I report that the old custom
which prevailed in this jurisdiction when I was first elected
Grand Secretary, viz : of waiting until the meeting of the
Grand Lodge before sending in returns and remitting
Grand Lodge dues, is gradually passing away. I have
labored earnestly with the Secretaries of the Subordinate
Lodges trying- to get them to realize the importance of
sending in their returns with the remittances on or before
November 25th preceding each Grand Lodge meeting, as
the law of the Grand Lodge stipulates. It is impossible
for me to make a full and complete report to the Grand
Lodge at each Annual Communication unless I receive
these returns in time to compile them and get them in prop-
er shape so that I can add up the figures and present them
to the Grand Lodge in accurate form.
It requires considerable time to do this.
NEW LODGES.
New lodges have been established under the dispensa-
tion of the Grand Master as follows :
1901.
January 23 — Barnardsville Lodge , at Barnards ville,
Buncombe County.
February 23 — Caroleen Lodge , at Caroleen, Rutherford
County.
March 18 — Lone Hickory Lodge, at Lone Hickory, Yad-
kin County.
May 31 — Lattiinore Lodge , at Lattimore, Cleveland
County.
August 7 — Belhaven Lodge, at Belhaven, Beaufort
County.
August 10 — Aulander Lodge, at Aulander, Bertie
County.
August 16 — Far mville Lodge, at Farm ville, Pitt County.
September 3 — Sylva Lodge , at Sylva, Jackson County.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
LODGES REVIVED.
The Charter has been restored to Belmont Lodge , No.
ro8, at Faison, in Duplin County, and that lodge has re-
sumed work.
CONTINUED UNDER DISPENSATION.
The following lodges were continued under dispensa-
tion :
Roberdell Lodge , at Roberdell, Richmond County.
Scotland Lodge , at Gibson, Scotland County.
Whetstone Lodge , at Bessemer City, Gaston County.
CHARTERS SURRENDERED.
The following lodges have surrendered their Charters
and ceased to work :
Mecklenburg Lodge , No. ij6, at Davidson, in Mecklen-
burg County. Nov. 9, 1901.
Yadkin Falls Lodge , No. 422 , at New London, in Stan-
ly County. July 8, 1901.
Mount Pisgah Lodge , No. j68, at Williams Mill, in Chat-
ham County. Oct. 16, 1901.
Mountain Park Lodge , No. 445 , at Hot Springs, in Mad-
ison County. June 26, 1901.
GRAND REPRESENTATIVES.
The following appointments of Grand Representatives
have been made during the year and they have been com-
missioned accordingly:
From this Grand Lodge near other Grand Lodges:
Right Worshipful Christopher James Whiting Griffiths,
Auckland, New Zealand, for New Zealand.
Most Worshipful W. S. Fly, Past Grand Master, San
Antonio, Texas, for Texas.
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From other Grand Lodges near this Grand Lodge:
Worshipful Thomas Bell, Greensboro, N. C., for New Zea-
land.
LIBRARY.
The following report from the Grand Librarian, Robert
H. Bradley, shows what has been done in that department
during the year:
John C. Drewry , Esq. , Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge
of North Carolina.
Dear Sir and Brother: — I herewith submit my re-
port as Grand Librarian of the Grand Lodge for the year
1901.
I have received but few volumes for our library other
than the regular Proceedings received in exchange, from
other Grand . Jurisdictions, and have had no Proceedings
bound, but will have those in our library bound this year in
order to preserve them.
I have received the following missing Proceedings, for
which we extend our thanks to the respective Grand Secre-
taries for their courtesies :
Delaware, 1892-1893; Indiana, 1885-1887; Massachu-
setts, 1888; Rhode Isiand, 1899; Washington, 1899; Geor-
gia, 1898.
I have received the Laws of Masonry from Kansas,
and biographies and engravings of present and past Grand
Masters, Grand Treasurers and Secretaries of the Grand
Lodge of Missouri.
Would it not be wise for the Grand Lodge for a few
years to make a small appropriation for the purchase of
. some of the latest and best works on Masonic Law and
Jurisprudence? Such works might be of great value to the
committees at our Annual Communications.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
I wish to remind our brethren that I am waiting
and hoping that someone will remember this library and
make a substantial donation to it of some standard works
on Masonry which would make it more valuable as a refer-
ence library.
Fraternally submitted,
R. H. Bradley,
Librarian.
In my report last year I was compelled to apologize to
the Grand Lodge for the delay in getting out the Grand
Lodge Proceedings. The Proceedings are printed at the
Oxford Orphan Asylum, and the work done on the Pro-
ceedings at that Institution during the past year was so
creditable that I feel that it is my duty now in this re-
port to compliment the Asylum upon its excellent work in
not only getting out the Proceedings the past year in good
time, but also upon the accuracy and neatness of the job.
It is as good piece of job work as can be turned out by any
firm in this State. The appearance of the Proceedings has
been complimented and much admired. The printing de-
partment at the Oxford Orphan Asylum is a credit to any
institution, and the work turned out by that department
can hardly be surpassed by any printing establishment in
the South.
REVENUE.
Receipts to December ioth, from all sources $7,647 55
From lodge dues $ 7,394 05
Bequest of Mrs. Rebecca Baird 100 00
Charter and dispensation fees, less Grand Sec-
retary’s fees 139 00
Sale of Codes, certificates and other items 14 50 7,647 55
Paid William Simpson, Grand Treasurer, as
' per his receipts
7,647 55
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
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RECAPITULATION OF RETURNS.
Number of lodges in tbe jurisdiction 324
Number of lodges that have made returns 283
Number of Master Masons at date of last report 11,637
Number initiated 975
Number passed 917
Number raised 9x7
Number admitted 267
Number reinstated 114
Total 12,935
Number suspended 46
Number expelled. 17
Number excluded 235
Number withdrawn 419
Number died 206 923
Number of Master Masons October 31, 1901 12,012
This statement shows a very marked improvement in
the condition of Masonry in North Carolina, and plainly
shows that there has been earnest, faithful work on the
part of some of the members of the Order in this Grand
Jurisdiction.
I have been in the habit of bringing forward receipts
-and membership each year and comparing' them with
former years, and I will continue that custom in this report
in order to give the members of the Grand Lodge a better
idea of the progress that is going on in our Order. In 1895,
when I was first elected Grand Secretary, the total receipts
of the Grand Lodge at that time were $4,799.50; the total
receipts this year, as shown above, are $7,647.55, or an
increase in receipts of about 70 per cent. At that time the
number of Master Masons in good standing in North Caro-
lina was 9,824; we now have a total membership of 12,012,
which is an increase of over 20 per cent.
These facts are very encouraging, and they should fill
us all with fresh hope for the future, and enable us to press
onward to greater achievements with renewed vigor.
Respectfully submitted,
John C. Drewry,
Grand Secretary .
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Report of the Board of Directors of the Oxford
Orphan Asvlum.
Bro. G. Rosenthal, for the Board of Directors of the
Oxford Orphan Asylum, submitted the following report,
which was read and referred to the Committee on Orphan
Asylum :
To the Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina:
Another year has passed in the history of the Oxford
Orphan Asylum, an institution which should be dear to
every Mason and of which he should be justly proud.
Twenty-nine years ago this Institution was founded by you
in a small way, but it has grown steadily year by year, until
it now cares for 221 children who would grow up in igno-
rance and vice, were it not for the Oxford Orphan Asylum.
The noblest of all charities is that which takes the
homeless, the fatherless, and the neglected little ones,
clothes, educates, and fits them for the battle of life. There
is infinitely more charity in caring for the helpless child
than the indigent adult, and it is the duty of every good
citizen to help to relieve the future of its burden of igno-
rance and crime.
The building for the Sash, Door & Blind Factory was
finished on the 18th instant and the boiler, engine and
machinery will be moved into it as soon as the weather per-
mits. All the brick used in its construction are part of the
former “Boys’ Building,” and the total cost — not counting
the brick — is $1,954.50.
A well 256 feet 3 inches deep has been bored by the
Sydnor Well & Pump Company, of Richmond, Va. , at a
cost of $1,212.21, which, when a suitable pump has been
installed, will furnish an ample water supply, at the rate of
seventy- five gallons a minute and at a temperature of 55
degrees, for the various industrial departments and domestic
purposes.
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
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Arrangements have been made for the immediate pur-
chase of sixteen double beds with necessary mattresses,
bed-clothing, etc.-, and as soon as they are received and
placed, in the different cottages thirty-two children, whose
applications have been favorably passed upon, will be
admitted, thereby increasing the number of inmates to
upwards of 250, and reducing the per capita cost of mainte-
nance and education in proportion. This will fill all
available space in the several buildings, and if your Grand
Body contemplates a further increase in the number of
children, one or more cottages will have to be erected
and the appropriation increased.
Should the financial condition permit, we contemplate
the construction of two brick buildings, one to be occupied by
the Printing Department and Shoe Shop, the other one by
the Laundry. With these in close proximity to the build-
ing just finished; all our industrial establishments will be
well located and a considerable sum of money saved annu-
ally in the matter of fuel.
We have received $477.98 rents from the Minneapolis
property. Should you favor its sale, we shall be pleased to
have your views, but do not believe that a good price could
be obtained for it at present, nor are we sure that Davidson
College will consent to a sale, that institution and your
Orphan Asylum being joint owners of the property.
The electric light plant authorized by you one year
ago has not been purchased, but we are having an estimate
made of a plant having a capacity of from 300 to 400 lights,
said estimate to include wiring and everything connected
with it.
We regret that the circulation of The Orphans' Friend is
not as large as it should be, but hope for a considerable
increase during the coming year. If the Lodges and indi-
vidual Masons were to take an interest in the paper, we see
no reason why its circulation should not reach 10,000 at an
early day. We find a great improvement in its appearance,
make-up and reading matter.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
The contributions of individuals have decreased $229.18
as against last year; those of Lodges have increased
$430. 64 and those of Churches, Sunday Schools, etc. , $189.64.
There are eight Orphanages for white children in the State,
seven of these being entirely supported by private contri-
butions, and we think we have cause for ‘ congratulation
that our finances are in such healthy condition.
Capt. C. B. Denson, Secretary of the Board of State
Charities, recently visited our Institution in his official
capacity, and in his report to the Governor has this to say:
“The Oxford Orphan Asylum has 221 pupils, an increase of
six over last year. The largest number ever enrolled was
223 during the year. Of these 106 are girls and 115 boys
now present. How well it is doing its work is shown by the
provision for forty-one during the year in approved homes
and five others with employment on salary, and one was
received in the Normal & Industrial College. At the date
of the report for the year ending November 30th the total
receipts were $26,947.40 including $7,500.00 from the State.
The net cost of maintenance and education was $16,014.51.
The per capita cost of maintenance alone was $50.86.
For maintenance and education the cost per capita was
$63.18. Special instruction and handicrafts, etc., is given
to seventy-nine boys and fifty-eight girls.
“There have been important improvements, comprising
a brick building nearing completion, for industrial opera-
tions ; a dairy, and the introduction of a new water supply
by well 256 feet in depth. The Superintendent needs more
land, but his greatest want is a hospital building, fitted
with modern conveniences for infirmary use.”
A furniture factory was built about a year ago in the
town of Oxford and a number of boys have been at work
there. They earned $480.48 during the year.
We should be very much gratified if the brethren
would visit the Asylum frequently and see for themselves
the good work which is being done, under the direction of
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this Grand Body, by onr most efficient Superintendent,
Bro. W. J. Hicks, and his corps of assistants.
We append the reports of the Treasurer and Superin-
tendent, which give detailed information ' of all matters of
interest, and respectfully ask for the usual annual appropri-
ation of three thousand dollars.
Mr. B. N. Duke having resigned as Director on the
part of the State, on account of his removal to New York,
Governor Aycock appointed Dr. Dred Peacock, President
of Greensboro Female College, to fill the vacancy.
Fraternally submitted,
B. S. Royster,
Chairman ex-officio.
T. A. Green,
J. M. Currin,
C. W. Toms,
Dred Peacock,
G. Rosenthal,
Directors present.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Report of Treasurer of the Oxford Orphan
Asvlum.
Bro. G. Rosenthal, Treasurer of the Oxford Orphan
Asylum, submitted his report, which was read and referred
to the Committee on Orphan Asylum :
To the Board of Directors of the Oxford Orphan Asylum:
I herewith submit my annual report for the fiscal year'
ending on the 30th day of November, 1901.
RECEIPTS.
Balance on hand December 1, 1900 $ 2,959 31
Balance of Grand Dodge appropriation for 1900 1,000 00
On account of Grand Lodge appropriation for 1901 2,000 00
Annual appropriation by the State 10,000 00
Collection in Grand Lodge 40 07
Contributions by lodges 2,466 14
Contributions by individuals 555 52
Contributions by churches, schools, Sunday-schools 1,020 50
Proceeds of concerts of Singing Class 2,908 27
Rent from Minneapolis property 477 98
Annual legacy — Miss Baird 100 00
Annual interest from B. F. Moore legacy 80 00
Support of Mary Francis 35 00
Subscriptions to Orphans' Friend $ 1,623.60 )
Job work of printing office 1,799.94 V 3,916 11
Advertisements in Orphans' Friend 492.57 )
Sash, Door & Blind Factory • 4,693 62
Labor of boys in Furniture Factor}’ 480 48
Shoe Shop 424 70
Sundries 231 22
Sundry Mite Boxes 17 79
$ 33,406 71
Disbursements (see statement) ' 28,313 25
Balance on hand November 30th $ 5,093 46
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
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Building Fund.
Balance on hand December i, 1900 $ 1,021 97
Receipts from all sources (see statement) 1,^74 90
I 2,996 87
Disbursements (see statement) 2.533 83
Balance oh hand November 30th $ 463 04
Itemized statements of receipts and disbursements of
both funds are hereto attached, as required by a resolution
of the Grand Lodge.
I have on deposit with the Bank of Granville, Oxford,
on account of the General Fund $ 4,093 46
And with the Raleigh Savings Bank 1,000 00
Total, as per statement $ 5,093 46
There is to my credit with the Bank of Granville on
account of the Building Fund $ 4 69
In the hands of Superintendent Hicks 458 35
Total $ 463 04
I have transferred the sum of thirteen hundred dollars
($1,300.00) from the General Fund to the Building Fund
(which is included among the receipts of the latter) to meet
the expenses of the Industrial Building, which was ordered
to be built under a resolution of Bro. John W. Gotten, offered
at the last Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge,
which authorized the Board to borrow $2,500 for that pur-
pose and appropriated five hundred ($500.00) dollars annu-
ally for the years 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, and 1905 to repay
the loan.
Finding the General Fund had sufficient money, I trans-
ferred instead of borrowing, thereby saving interest.
I have not received the five hundred ($500.00) dollars
appropriated for 1901, nor a balance of one thousand
($1,000.00) dollars due on the general appropriation, but
have been informed by the Grand Treasurer, Brother Simp-
son, that he is ready to pay the money at any time.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Six hundred and thirty-two dollars and thirty-one cents
($632.31) has been paid by the Building Fund towards the
boring of a deep well, the total cost of which is twelve
hundred and twelve dollars and twenty-one cents ($1,212.21).
I beg to call your attention to the contributions of
Neuse Lodge No. 6, I. O. O. F., at Goldsboro, and Ruffin
Lodge No. 6, Knights of Pythias, also at Goldsboro. They
are the only institutions other than Masonic which have
contributed to the support of our Asylum.
I congratulate you on the bright outlook of the noble
Institution under your care and thank you for your con-
stant kindness and courtesy.
Fraternally and respectfully submitted,
G. Rosenthal,
Treasurer.
Report of Superintendent of the Oxford Orphan
Asylum.
Bro. E. W. Jones, for the Superintendent of the Oxford
Orphan Asylum, submitted his report which was read and
referred to the Committee on Orphan Asylum :
To the -Honorable Board of Directors of the Oxford Orphan
Asylum.
Gentlemen: — I herewith respectfully submit the follow-
ing report of the Oxford Orphan Asylum for the year end-
ing November the 30th, 1901. Before going into a detail
statement I beg leave to call your attention, as briefly as
possible, to the work of the Asylum in general.
LAUNDRY.
The laundry work of the Institution is still being done
in the old Industrial Building. Considering the worn and
dilapidated condition of the building and machinery of this
department, Miss Feimster and her eight girl helpers have
performed this heavy work with credit.
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KITCHEN AND DINING ROOMS.
The kitchen is one of the neatest places at the Asylum.
Under the careful supervision of Miss Cora Hogan, the
thirty girls employed in the dining rooms and cook room
are receiving valuable lessons in domestic work, and the
clean and tidy appearance of their department shows how
well they are learning.
SEWING ROOM.
On account of the departure of so many of our large
girls during the past year the matrons of the sewing de-
partment, Miss Maggie Mayer and her assistant, Mrs. M. H.
Meadows, have had ' to rely upon the smaller and inex-
perienced girls for help. The work of the department
being very heavy, it has been necessary to hire more out-
side aid than usual. But, so rapidly have the younger girls
taken up the work, we have been able to dispense with
all hired labor with the exception of the two matrons in
charge.
FARM.
On the first of November Mr. J. W. Hunt, who has
successfully managed the farm for three years, resigned to
accept a position, which he formerly held, as salesman in
the hardware store of Mr. J. F. Edwards. Since that time
Mr. J. G. Pendergraph, who has been assisting on the farm
for several years, has taken charge. We hope soon to have
another young man to assist him.
Notwithstanding the unfavorable season in the early
spring, we have had an abundant supply of vegetables.
Milk and butter have been plentiful. We will have about
thirty hogs to kill which will supply us with meat for sever-
al months.
SCHOOL.
There has been very little change in the literary work
during the year. Since our teaching force has been in-
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
creased, the work of each teacher has been made lighter
and the)’ have thus been enabled to do more thorough work
in school, and to g'ive closer attention to the duties of their
respective cottages. The Lady Supervisor and the nine
teachers are to be commended for their thorough and effi-
cient work.
SHOE SHOP.
More work has been done in this department than ever
before. One hundred and sixteen more pairs of shoes have
been made for the Asylum during the past year than in the
preceding year. Also $17.88 more has been received for
custom work. Disregarding the financial value of the shoe
shop, it is worth a great deal as a training school. Two of
the boys have recently left it and secured good salaries with
chance of promotion. Mr. M. F. Hill is still in charge of
this work.
PRINTING OFFICE.
With the present outfit of the Printing Department and
several small improvements which we hope soon to see
made, 1 feel safe in saying that neater job work can not be
done anywhere in the State. It is with pleasure that we
notice an increase in the demand for our work. But I
regret to say that there has been no increase in the number
of subscribers to The Orphans' Friend and Masonic Journal.
There was a time when people subscribed to a paper of this
character because it represented a good cause, but we fear
that time has passed. We now realize that, to increase its
circulation, we must send it forth as a paper worth the
price of subscription. This we are trying to do, and we
trust that we may have the hearty co-operation of all Masons
and friends.
WOOD-WORKING SHOP.
This work has been carried on under many disadvan-
tages. The old building is poorly suited for the work,
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especially in the cold months of winter. The water supply
has been insufficient, and several times the shop has been
closed for this reason. Yet the cash receipts have been
greater and more work done for the Asylum than in the
preceding year. The prospects for another year will be
treated under the head of improvements.
HOSPITAL.
The health of the children has been very gratifying.
With the exception of a slight epidemic of grippe in the
early spring, the hospital has been free from occupants.
But I regret to report the death of one little girl, Annie
Francis, from Roxboro. She had not been well since her
admission into the Institution and her death came as a
result of a scalp disease of long standing aided by grippe.
Our hospital needs are mentioned elsewhere.
The receipts and disbursements under the different
accounts of the Institution, from December i, 1900, to
December 1, 1901, are as follows:
CLOTHING ACCOUNT.
Cost of clothing, sewing-room supplies
and extra labor $ 1,078 32
Salary of matrons 438 17
$ 1,516 49
Less clothing sold 14 78
(Value of donations in kind $483 92.)
1,502 71
PROVISION ACCOUNT.
Cost of provisions and kitchen supplies
purchased $ 4,215 52
Salaries of matron and baker 523 37
: $ 4,738 89
Less provisions sold, board, etc 81 00
4,657 89
(Value of donations in kind $416 17 )
Carried forward
6,160 60
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Brought over.
$ 6,160 60
FARM ACCOUNT.
Cost of labor, seed, fertilizer, etc $ 1,671 64
Salary of farm manager 355 00
1 2,026 64
Less provisions sold 39 10
1.987 54
(Value of donations in kind $76 50.)
SHOE SHOP ACCOUNT.
Cost of material, etc $ 749 04
Salary of manager 302 09
$ 1,051 13
Cash received for work 424 70
626 43
(Value of donations in kind $46 30.)
LAUNDRY ACCOUNT.
Cost of supplies $ 103 98
Salary of matron and ]A, salary engineer 249 00
352 98
(Value of donations in kind $2 90.)
GENERAL EXPENSE ACCOUNT.
Cost of supplies, postage, telephone, etc. $ 909 94
Salaries as shown below 2,080 68
Less sale sundry articles and labor
boys at Furniture Factory
2,990 62
514 84
Salary paid Superintendent $ 600 00
Salary paid Clerk and Store-
keeper 900 on
One-half salary Lady Supervis-
or 466 68
Baker for extra work 60 00
Portion salary of engineer 54 00
2,080 68
(Value donations in kind $416 25.)
2,475 78
Carried forward.
11,603 33
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Brought over $ 11,603 33
HOSPITAL ACCOUNT.
Cost of medicines, doctors’ bills, etc $ 355 40
Salary of matron 194 17
549 57
(Value of donations in kind $31 90.)
WOOD AND COAL ACCOUNT.
Cost of wood and coal $ 1,084 49
One-third salary of engineer 54 00
$ 1,138 49
Less cash receipts 42 15
1,096 34
Cost maintaining average of 223 children 13,249 24
SCHOOL ACCOUNT.
Cost of material, books, etc $ 138 70
Salaries of teachers and one-half salary
of Lady Supervisor 2,626 57
(Value of donations in kind $15 50.;
Cost of maintenance and education
MACHINE SHOP ACCOUNT.
Cost of material, etc $ 3,678 00
Salary of manager 900 00
Extra labor 990 46
$
Less cash received for work
(Value of donations in kind $23 00.)
PRINTING ACCOUNT.
Cost of material, postage, extra labor,
gasoline, etc $ 1,897 67
Salaries of manager and assistant 1,215 00
$ 3,H2 67
Receipts printing account 3,937 86
Profit 825 19
(Value of donations in kind $6 00.)
5,568 46
4,693 62
— $ 874 84
2,765 27
16,014 51
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
Cost of sundry repairs and permanent
improvements including new shop bill $ 1,671 83
Less sale of material 2 69
$ 1,669 14
Considering the inventories of last year and this, the
per capita cost of maintaining each child during the year has
been $50. 86. Without deducting the receipts of the Sing-
ing Class, the per capita cost of maintenance and education
has been $63.18, over and above the earnings of the Insti-
tution.
Below I submit the usual statement of the operations
of the Printing Office, Wood- Working Shop and Shoe Shop:
PRINTING OFFICE.
Cr.
Cash from subscriptions to Orphans' Friend and
Masonic Journal $ 1,623 60
Cash from advertisements in Orphans' Friend and
Masonic Journal 492 57
Cash from job >vork 1,799 94
Cash from sale of stationery, etc 21 75
Received in trade for advertisements 54 00
Work for Asylum 223 87
Accounts receivable, jobs $88.40, ads. $267.20,
subscriptions $58.40 414 00
Paper and stock on hand 754 45
$ 5.384 18
Dr.
Material on hand at last report $ 244 77
Expended for paper, material, freight, etc 1,515 55
Salaries 1,215 00
Extra labor 226 38
Postage 97 21
Gasoline 58 53
Oil, etc., from Wood-Working Shop 4 38
4,361 82
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
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MACHINE SHOP.
Cr.
Cash received for work $ 4,693 62
Asylum work, repairs, permanent improvements ... 712 52
Accounts receivable 2,478 59
Material on hand 1,322 72
Material on hand last report.. $ 1,178 94
Expended for work, lumber, etc 3,678 00
Salary of manager 900 00
Extra labor 990 46
6,747 40
SHOE SHOP.
2,460 05
Cr.
Cash received for work $ 424 70
347 pairs of shoes and slippers, $1. 10 381 70
Repairing for Asylum, farm and singing class 393 60
Accounts receivabl e 70 40
Material on hand 182 70
Shoes purchased and donated (on hand) 8 00
. $ 1,461 10
Dr.
Material on hand last report $ 77 19
Cost of supplies this year 749 04
Salary of manager 302 09
Work for Machine Shop 2 50
1,130 82
330 28
The following statement gives the movement of our
population during the year:
Girls Boys Total
In our Institution December 1, 1900 hi 104 215
Received during the year 23 40 63
Readmitted ... 224
Discharged during the year
In Asylum December 1, 1901
7
136 146 282
30 31 61
106 115
221
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Of the children leaving the Asylum,
Four girls and seven boys went to their own homes u
Twenty-two girls and nineteen boys went to approved homes 41
One girl and four boys secured employment on salary 5
One boy ran away 1
One girl died 1
One girl went home on vacation and died 1
One girl went to N. & I. College at Greensboro 1
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PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.
As authorized by your Honorable Board we have made
the following permanent improvements since my last report :
1 st. The great need that has been felt for years for an
abundant supply of good, clear, pure water, will, we think,
be fully met now. We have a well 256 feet deep that will
furnish from 75 to 100 gallons per minute of beautiful,
clear, cold water, as soon as machinery can be moved and
pump set in the well. This, we think, will prove to be the
greatest blessing of any single thing that has been done for
the Institution for many years.
2nd. A new brick shop building for the Sash, Door &
Blind Factory is now nearing completion. The building,
54x120 feet, and two stories high, is located on the Asylum
grounds near the old brick-yard, and at this same point the
new well is also located. The change in location of this
shop will work great advantages to the Asylum. First. It
saves the long walk and the time which this walk necessa-
rily consumes, which is very desirable, especially in cold
and bad weather. Second. It does not subject the boys to
the many temptations which they naturally have in passing
through town to and from their work, and will thus avoid
many annoying troubles. Third. It brings the work of the
Asylum all near together, therefore making it more con-
venient to supervise and keep in line.
3rd. The third permanent improvement is the new
M ilk and Butter Dairy now nearly completed. This is
built of brick, 1 1 feet 6 inches by 20 feet 8 inches, one story
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high, divided into two rooms and located adjoining the
smoke house just in front of side entrance to cook room
and, therefore, immediately under the eye of the kitchen
matron. This, we think, has many advantages and will
save considerable time and labor.
Following up your present plans will be the construc-
tion of two other buildings, each 34x54 feet, and two stories
high ; one for printing office and shoe shop and their neces-
sary store and stock rooms; the other will be used as a
laundry, drying and ironing room. The upper story will
be used for sewing or mending rooms. Both of these
buildings will be located near by and in line .with the new
Sash, Door & Blind Factory, and all driven from a central
power in the new shop, as will also the deep well pump,
wood saws, etc. This will save us the expense of running
the small engine as has to be done at present for laundry,
wood saws, etc., and must prove a great saving and satis-
faction to the Asylum management.
These changes would enable you to perfect the plan of
locating the Superintendent in that part of the Main Build-
ing now occupied by the printing office and shoe shop and
thus bring him in closer touch with his work, which is so essen-
tial. Then the present Superintendent’s Cottage could be
taken as a Hospital, for which it is admirably suited. There
is a most pressing need for better hospital accommodations.
What we now have is the merest make-shift, and this much-
desired and much-needed change would bring joy to every
heart that wishes better things for the afflicted orphan
child. This done, the present hospital building" could be
used as the farmer’s home, for which it is well suited and
conveniently located.
As soon as the shop machinery is moved to the new
building the old shop building will be torn down and taken
to the Asylum grounds, where it will be set up for shelters
for forage, stock, wagons, carts, farming utensils, etc., a
thing which has been sorely needed for a long time. The
old lot can then be laid off for building lots and sold.
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When all of these changes, briefly stated here, have
been made, we think the Institution will be in shape for the
most economical and satisfactory supervision of any time
in its history; especially so if, on the completion of these
changes and improvements, you should conclude it wise
to put in an electric plant for lighting the buildings, grounds,
etc., and perhaps the town of Oxford. We think it might
be possible, by a' deal with our water and electric lights, to
get ours free of cost and perhaps some revenue besides.
At least it is a matter worthy of thought and some investi-
gation.
LIBRARY.
An Institution which has as its mission the training of
boys and girls is not complete without a well-equipped
library. This we have not had. Our library consists of
two small cases of books, many of which are not suited for
children. In October the officers and teachers of the Insti-
tution formed an association known as the Oxford Orphan
Asylum Library Association. Each member of the Associ-
ation has appealed to personal friends for books or money.
Letters have been written to persons in almost every county
in the State. As a result we have received donations of
books to the value of about fifty dollars and forty dollars in
cash. We are looking forward to greater results in the
near .future and we hope every friend will lend a helping
hand.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Donations in kind estimated at $1,519.44 have been
received during the year. The liberal gifts of Mrs. A. C.
Best, wife of Past Grand Master R. W. Best, deserve
special notice. Among these I mention a beautiful upright
piano, given in memory of Miss Ann Salmond Best, daugh-
ter of Mrs. A. C. Best, a handsome desk and book-case filled
with good books, a set of parlor furniture and a number of
pictures.
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Over one hundred children were away from the Asylum
during the months of July and August, on a visit to parents
and friends. ' We were thus enabled to close four cottages
and decrease expenses.
The summer tours of the Singing Class were successful,
notwithstanding the very inclement weather. The receipts
were $2,908.27. Deducting the expense,’ $266.98, there is
a clear profit of $2,641.29.
Twenty boys from the Institution have been employed
at the Oxford Furniture Factory. Half of them work in
the morning and the other half in the afternoon. About
$60.00 per month is received from this source.
CONCLUSION.
In closing I desire to express our sincere thanks to the
members of the Board for their kindly advice and hearty
co-operation, and to the many friends of the Institution for
their liberal gifts, expressions of sympathy and words of
encouragement. The little spark of love for the orphan
cause which was kindled in the hearts of the people thirty
years ago has been fanned into a flame. We are grateful
to God that He has softened the hearts of men towards the
work. With the hearty support of friends and under the
leadership of God our future looks bright.
Very respectfully submitted,
W. J. Hicks,
Superintendent .
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Grand Orator's Address.
The Grand Orator, Bro. A. A, Marshall, was then in-
troduced by the Grand Master and delivered the Animal
Address as follows :
Grand Master and Brethren of the Grand Lodge:
We have met tonight in solemn conclave to celebrate
another anniversary of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina.
I can but feel that we have great reason to thank God for
the blessings of the year that is gone.
As our muffled voices strike the ears of those who pass
along the sidewalk beneath us, someone will ask, “What is
the meeting that is being held above?” . Some knowing one
will answer, “It is a meeting of the Grand Lodge of
Masons.” In thought, at least, another question will pre-
sent itself, in words like these: “And what is Masonry?”
That is the very question that I propose for our considera-
tion tonight. Esoterics though we be, and presumably
acquainted with all the mysteries and hidden secrets of the
Order, it can not do us harm to return to first principles and
discuss the question: “What is Masonry?”
It is a well-known fact that the more one knows, the
more he realizes that he does not know. The young appren-
tice who enters the lodge for the first time and beholds as
in a twilight some of the beauties of Masonry, may in the
glow of his enthusiasm feel that he knows Masonry now, —
may fancy that he has heard the mysterious Sphinx break
silence, and that he has cut the Gordian knot of Masonic mys-
tery. The Fellow Craft, elated with the honor of his promo-
tion, may feel that from his elevation and higher position his
eyes can sweep the landscape o’er. But the Master Mason
who has trod the dangerous pathway that leads to higher
and holier things, and who has with bedazzled eyes beheld
the great lights of Masonry, has learned that beyond him
lie sources of knowledge which years of diligent search only
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will reveal to him. Indeed, the Master Mason must feel
like the captain of a ship sailing mid-ocean, his eye,
wearied with the stretch of distance before him, sees the
sky bend down to shut in with the horizon the limit of his
view, and yet realizes that beyond the place where Heaven
and earth seem to meet lie unexplored waters rich in islands
of surpassing scenery, adorned with rare flowers and rare
birds and stores of precious gems and beds of gold and
silver.
And the higher one rises in the scale of Masonic knowl-
edge the more does he realize his own ignorance of the
profounder things of the Order, and the more does he feel
like the queen of Sheba who, beholding the splendid treas-
ures of King Solomon, declared, “The half was not told me,
thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I
heard. ”
If the question suggested by the passer-by, “What is
Masonry?” should be put to a Masonic brother, he would
answer, “Why, Masonry is a fraternal order, ’’and he would,
in a sense, answer correctly. For Masonry is a fraternity
and is designed to cultivate those excellent graces of friend-
ship and brotherly love which, by the sharing, double the
joys and halve the sorrows of life.
The fraternal side of Masonry would furnish a theme
broad and deep enough for this, or any other Masonic occa-
sion. Fraternity and friendship are noble and praiseworthy
virtues, they are the flowers borne of seed dropped from the
skies and flourish only in the fertile soil of noble hearts.
The base and depraved are incapable of them. Human
lives are fortified by friendships, human hearts are made
strong by fraternity, to love and to be loved is the greatest
happiness of our mortal existence. So that I do not won-
der that the story of fraternal friendship that bound
together the hearts of Damon and Pythias should have sur-
vived through the centuries and shed its fragrance about
the homes and hearts of men through all the ages ; nor that
the record of the love of Jonathan and David, of which it
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was written “the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of
David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul,” should
have formed the basis of many a lecture on fraternity and
have inspired like devotion in the hearts of others. For
after all,
“Friendship is the holiest of gifts,
God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us!
It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain.
Ever}' one can have a friend,
Who himself knows how to be a friend.”
The making, then, of friends and brothers is a high and
holy purpose. For as another tells us, “The mind never un-
bends itself so agreeably as in the conversation of a well-
chosen friend. There is, indeed, no blessing of life that is
any way comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and
virtuous friend. It eases and unloads the mind, clears and
improves the understanding, engenders thoughts and knowl-
edge, animates virtue and good resolutions, soothes and
allays the passions and finds employment for most of the
vacant hours of life.” So that if Masonry did nothing
more than cultivate a fraternal feeling and bind together the
hearts of its members in indissoluble bonds of friendship it
would be doing a great work, and deserve a place among
the great institutions of our land and be properly regarded
as one of the bulwarks of our liberties and a guarantor of
our civilization. But it does this and very much more, so
that Masonry is more than a fraternity.
If pressed for further answer to the question : “What is
Masonry?” someone might add, “Masonry is a charitable
organization, caring for the sick, burying the dead and pro-
viding for the widows and orphans of deceased brethren.”
And this answer would be a truthful one, for Masonry is a
charitable and eleemosynary institution, practicing that
God-like virtue of which the Apostle spoke when he said :
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three, but
the greatest of these is charity.” Its gifts of sympathy
and alms have been world-wide, and have blessed alike the
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palace and the hovel. It has been foremost in caring for
that unfortunate class of which Holy Writ hath declared
that “pure religion and undefiled before God is to visit the
fatherless and the widow in their affliction.” Under the
touch of her beneficent hand,
“A million dim eyes once weary with sadness,
A million dark lashes once wet with their tears,
Are raised to the light with a glimmer of gladness,
As joy smiles again through the mist of the years.”
Yes, it has been the province of Masonry to both exer-
cise and cultivate that grace of charity in which there can
be no hurtful excess. Other virtues when carried to an
excess will lead to harm, charity never. For as Bacon tells
us, “The desire of power in excess caused the angels to
fall ; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall,
but in charity there is no excess, neither angel nor man can
come in danger by it. ”
Nor is the excellency of charity to be measured by the
greatness of its gifts, but rather by the spirit of the giver,
and thus a double blessing is conferred, the one on him
who gives, the other on him who receives.
The monuments of Masonic benevolence are to be seen
in splendid buildings dedicated to learning and letters, in
homes erected for the care of orphaned children and in
stately memorials raised underneath drooping willows in
the silent cities of the dead. Besides these have been gifts
innumerable of sympathy, encourag'ement and inspiration,
while faithful brethren, to the weary and the sick, have
given the cup of refreshment. It may be a little thing,
“To give a cup of water, yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered'lips,
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame
More exquisite than when Nectarian wine
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.”
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Yes, Masonry is a charitable institution, it is a frater-
nity, it is a secret order. It is all these and more, — much
more. Indeed, even to my limited understanding of the
mysteries and glories of that Order which we celebrate in
this session of the Grand Lodge, the characteristics men-
tioned before are but a small part of the truth and furnish
to us so small an arc of the circumference of that vast cir-
cle that encloses the verities and realities of Masonry that
it would hardly enable us to complete its perimeter.
I confess just here my own inability to measure up to
the task of answering the question, “What is Masonry?”
with definiteness and accuracy. The subject as I contem-
plate it grows upon me and seems,
“ As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,
Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm.”
It is too high, I can not attain to it — it is too broad, I
can not encompass it.
Perhaps a brief study of the history of Masonry may
help us to an answer to the question, “What is Masonry?”
Laying aside the many mythical and legendary accounts
which come to us from various sources, as to the prehistoric
origin of Masonry, making the Order coeval with patri-
archal times, and entering upon an era of true historic
record, we find that Masonry dates back to the building of
the temple of King Solomon. The foundation of this mag-
nificent structure was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s
reign, which was the second after David’s death, four hun-
dred and eighty years after the exodus of the Israelites
from the land of the Pharoahs, and one thousand and
eleven years before the birth of Christ. And here let me
say by way of parenthesis that there is every reason to
believe that there had been pre-existing orders, out of
which was developed the well-ordered system of Masonry
at the time of the building of the temple. In the building
of that temple there were employed one hundred and fifty
thousand laborers, three thousand three hundred overseers,
and three Grand Masters were united in its execution, em-
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ploying as it did the wisdom of Solomon, the strong sup-
port of Hiram, King of Tyre, and the beautifying handi-
craft of Hiram, the widow’s son. The prime object of
Masonry was the proper division of labor, the securing of
fellowship and co-operation among the large number of
laborers and above all the cultivation of skill in handicraft,
whereby the labors of each man might secure a just remu-
neration, and only worthy and skillful artisans would be
assigned to the difficult and delicate work to be done in
completing and beautifying that matchless structure. What
an inspiration the establishment of the Order must have
furnished to the crude apprentice and to the somewhat ad-
vanced craftsman to secure the highest degree of skill and
efficiency in their work in order that they might secure
better compensation and receive, because of their greater
merit, the more thoughtful consideration of their fellow-
laborers. Not only was Masonry a Union among laboring
men for mutual benefit, but it was a training school, a
mechanical college for the securing of greater skill in handi-
craft. But in that day there was not that broad distinction
and separation between artisan life and professional life
that prevails in more organized communities of modern
times. It was then no uncommon thing to find the highest
degree of literary and professional skill conjoined with the
highest degree of manual training. Nor was the work of
the artisan in that day a matter of mere empiricism, dex-
terity without knowledge, as is too often the case in these
days. But his skill was founded on the most accurate
knowledge of the principles involved, it was art, but art
founded on science. So that the early training school of
Masonry was not merely a school of handicraft, but a school
of the highest form of scientific knowledge, involving as it
did the study of architecture, geometry, language and
economics. How ardentty the young apprentice must have
pursued the path of knowledge under the guidance of over-
seers and Grand Masters, making himself proficient in the
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sciences as well as the arts, that he might receive a deserved
promotion and an increase in the value of his services.
We see then that anciently Masonry was a school for
the teaching alike of the arts of handicraft and the sciences
on which they were founded. Each lodge became a
mechanical college uniting skill with learning and setting
forth the dignity of labor.
Strange how the wheels of time move back on the old
circle. The form of education which today is receiving —
and deservedly receiving— the highest consideration at the
hands of philanthropists and governments is just that form
of education inaugurated by Masonry more than three
thousand years ago — that form of education in which there
is a wise blending of the manual and the mental, in which
both the hand and the mind alike are sought to be trained.
Indeed, so strong has become the principle of manual train-
ing that the public schools of several of our States have
wisely conjoined the plan of mental culture with the best
form of mechanical training. As for myself, I have long
been convinced that that form of education is best which
takes cognizance of the physical conditions of life and that
seeks to fit one for all the varied experiences that arise in
the life of the individual. To that end I unhesitatingly
declare that to the average woman the knowledge of how
to cut and to sew, how to bake and how to care for her
home, are more necessary than to know how amoeba propa-
gate or to comprehend the laws of vibration. And to the
average man some acquaintance with mechanical appliances
and a knowledge of how to use the ordinary household
implements of hammer and hatchet and file and chisel may
prove of more practical value and add more to domestic
happiness than the knowledge of the laws of tangents or an
acquaintance with the philological argument in favor of
the early Aryan migration. Such was the idea of the
primitive school of Masonry and such is the idea of many of
the profoundest thinkers of our day. Karl Marx, in his
now famous work, declaims, “In the education of the
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future, labor will be combined with instruction, because
that is the only method of training symmetrically developed
men, and is also a means of increasing the productiveness
of the community.” We make also a quotation from Jules
Ferry, former minister of public instruction in France.
Upon the occasion of the laying of the corner-stone of a
building for technical instruction in Paris, he said: “ We
desire to ennoble hand-labor, we have written this motto in
large letters upon our program, and we have chosen the
surest, indeed the only means of securing the recognition of
the nobility of hand-labor, not only from those who exer-
cise it, but also from society as a whole. We have intro-
duced hand-labor into the school itself. Believe me, when
the plane and the file are accorded their place of honor by
the side of the compass, the map, and the text-book in his-
tory, and when they become the objects of rational and sys-
tematic instruction, only then will a great amount of prej-
udice die out and much of the spirit of caste vanish away.
Social peace will find a place upon the seats of the elemen-
tary schools, and harmony with her beaming light will
illuminate the future of the nation.”
That which is preserved to us in the beautiful and
striking symbols of Masonry constituted a part, at least, of
the course of study in the Masonic school, and also shows
the happy union of the two forms of education, manual and
mental. For in the symbolism of Masonry we find side by
side the square and compass and the Pythagorian prop-
osition in geometry, the trowel and the figures of astrono-
my, the one representing the implements of toil, the other
the product of highest thought. Nor did the school of
Masonry deal alone with matters of hand and head, but
concerned itself also with that highest of all culture, the
culture of the heart. That Masonry was a school for reli-
gious training is evidenced by the fact that distinctively
religious symbols, such as the ladder of the patriarch’s
dream, the all-seeing eye, and the ever-displayed initial of
the name of God, occupy a prominent place among the sym-
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bols. These symbols of Masonry constituted as it were a
series of texts from which worthy masters delivered, after
the manner of Plato’s teaching, discourses and lectures that
were designed to quicken the spirit of letters, to promote
habits of industry and direct the hearts of their pupils to
those duties owed to God without the discharge of which
no man can be really happy.
Masonry is worthy of our consideration from the mere
fact of its antiquity, for that which is old always interests us.
As another has told us, “ If we roll back the billowy tide of
time and unroll the mouldering records of past ages and
rummage among the musty tomes of buried centuries and
hold communion with the melancholy ghosts of dead re-
nown,— if we spread the chart of time before us and stand
amid the dateless tombs of past centuries and cause the
dynasties long past to come and review before us, we can
in them all trace the principles of our Masonic Order. ” Yes,
Masonry is old, old as the civilization of Egypt, for it beheld
the glory of the land of the Pharoahs in the day of her
pride, when her shores were crowded with a teeming and
prosperous population. It also beheld the inglorious down-
fall and saw her days of ignorance and superstition.
Masonry beheld the glory of that civilization which clustered
about the PEgean sea when Athens shone like a new-risen
sun to gild the earth with the glory of letters and when the
port of Piraeus was crowded with ships bearing the com-
merce of the world. It then beheld all this glory fade like
a dream, as the dying strains of Attic poetry and song ling-
ered in lessening cadences upon her classic shores. Masonry
beheld Rome when she was as yet a babe wrapped in swad-
dling bands and beheld her in her queenly pride ruling the
world from a throne at whose feet the yellow Tiber seemed
a band of gold. It then beheld Roman glory fade as fades
the young and tender leaves of forests and fields before the
approach of swarming locusts, when hordes of Northern
barbarians swooped down upon her marble streets and gilded
palaces. All this and more has Masonry beheld through the
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long centuries of her life, and yet herself seems young, with
the glow of health and the dewy freshness of youth upon
her cheek, her hair is still raven, her step elastic, and endow-
ed with an immortal youth it seems that she shall abide un-
til the archangel shall proclaim that time is no more.
Yes, Masonry is worthy of our consideration because of
her years and because of what she has seen transpire on this
planet of ours. But infinitely more is she worthy of our con-
sideration, respect and devotion as the patron of learning,
the promoter of the arts and the conservator of knowledge.
As years passed by and society became more complex
and competition grew sharper it was found necessary to dis-
continue the distinctivly operative features of the great' school
of Masonry, and while still adhering to its appreciation of
the dignity of labor, the emphasis of Masonic teaching was
laid more upon theory than upon practice. Many causes
conspired to bring about this change. Among them might
be mentioned the growing needs of statecraft because of
more complicated forms of government, the lessening of ap-
preciation of the more massive forms of architectural struc-
tures, so that fewer men would be required to build them,
the heavy draft made upon labor to furnish soldiers for the
wars of ambitious rulers, as well as the spirit of scientific
investigation requiring the whole time of the individual for
study, the harder competition among artisans and mechanics
requiring so large a portion of time to make a living as to
leave no time for study. All these and other causes con-
spired.to bring about a separation of the two great features
of original Masonry, the manual and the mental, the oper-
ative and the speculative. So that from this time on
Masonry assumed more and more the character of the theo-
retical and speculative. Finding no longer time for the
careful training of artisans and no longer opportunity to do
it, it preserved its ancient traditions as to the dignity of
labor and devoted itself more and more to the study of social
conditions, to the encouragement of right living and to the
practicing of those virtues that tend to the happiness of man-
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kind in this life and in the life to come. In other words, the
change in Masonry from operative to speculative did not
change its essential character as a school. With the single
exception of its manual training it continued as it was be-
fore, a school, using the same text-books, the symbols,
teaching the same lessons and drawing therefrom the same
conclusions. So that if today I were called upon to answer the
question, What is Masonry? I should say above everything
else Masonry is a great school aiming to fit men for the
duties of life, — a great school, with a system of text-books
all its own and with a manner of teaching peculiar to itself.
He who insists upon the fraternal or charitable or ritu-
alistic features of Masonry to the neglect of its teaching'
qualities has failed to catch the real spirit of the institu-
tion, his eyes have been bedazzled with the glow of the
firefly, while he fails to see the full-orbed moon shining
above him.
And, pray, what are the lessons that Masonry would
teach us? Some of these I have already indicated, and the
list is far too long for accurate enumeration, the simple
statement of a few of them may not be amiss. First and
foremost, it teaches to us the dignity of labor, respect for
law, self-control, temperance, brotherly love, prudence, jus-
tice. It lays emphasis also on the liberal arts and sciences,
and above all seeks to inculcate in practical forms the duty
of man to his God. Its lessons are close akin to the great
trio of virtues, "‘faith, hope and charity,” upon these rests
the structure of Masonry and around these cluster the
brightest hopes and fondest anticipations of the Order. He
who has thoroughly mastered the teaching symbols of
Masonry has laid the foundation of a liberal education.
While the lessons of Masonry are of supreme value, the
method of teaching them is a method all her own, and a
method it is from which schoolmasters in our own times
could derive valuable help. Indeed, something akin to the
Masonic method is set forth in the theories of Rousseau and
Pestalozzi, Grand Masters in the art of pedagogy, who by
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their system of illustrative object-teaching have approxi-
mated the excellent plan adopted in Masonic lodges more
than three thousand years ago. I know that there are
those who seek to undervalue method in teaching, but I in-
sist that method, as well as subject-mater, is vital. Ofttimes
the pathway to knowledge is made difficult and precipitous
by the use of unwise methods, for method is merely the road
over which one travels to reach the summit of the hill of
knowledge. So that among thoughtful men the study of
method has been held a matter of great importance. We
hear much about the Socratic method, which consisted of
teaching by asking questions ; of the method of Plato, who
accompanied by his pupils delivered his lectures as he walked
through the streets of Athens; of the method of Pestalozzi,
who insisted that teaching should be done by the use of ob-
jects. Then we have also the Herbartian system, which
makes moral training the ultimate end of education and
claims that what are usually considered the secular or non-
moral sciences are themselves important factors in moral
development. We may add to these the method of Him who
“ taught not as the Scribes and Pharisees, but as one having
authority.” His method was distinctively illustrative and
symbolic, for we read: “He taught them in parables,” and
in His pedagogy birds and lilies became the visible symbols
of divine providence and grain falling from the farmer’s
hand, and the lump of leaven placed in the measure of meal
became the symbols of the growth of grace in the human
heart.
The method of Masonry more nearly approximates the
methods of Him who spake as never man spake before. The
symbolic method has three points of decided advantage. It is
illustrative and therefore easily understood. It is concise,
requiring less time to comprehend, and presents more
accurately the right relation between the whole and its parts.
It is easy of retention, its appeals being made to the eye, the
kinglier sense whose impressions memory receives more
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gratefully and imagination reproduces more readily. Appeals
made to the mind through the ear are sluggish and heavy,
those through the eye are vivid and realistic. Appeals
through the ear need to be repeated, line upon line, and pre-
cept upon precept, while those through the eye are instan-
taneous. What we have heard we recall with difficulty,
what we touch or taste or smell are barely retained and can
hardly be reproduced at all, what we have seen remains clear
and vivid, a living picture in the soul.
The symbolic teaching of Masonry appeals to the eye,
and he who once has understanding^ beheld the symbolic
Checker-board, the Square and Compass, the Altar and
Apron, the Winding Stair, the All-seeing Eye, the Clasped
Hands, the Sprig of Acacia, the Patriarch’s Vision, and
Death Untangling the Ringlets of the Maiden’s Hair, can
never forget the lessons they would teach us. Lessons they
are which can scarcely be translated into words, and which
can only be understood by devout hearts standing in enrap-
tured consideration before them.
Thus we see that the symbolic teaching of Masonry bears
a striking resemblance to the teaching power of art. Paint-
ings and pictures are more than figures and lines of beauty
and blending of colors, they are almost living things, and to
the cultivated taste they speak in thoughts which reach the
inner consciousness with greater force than spoken words.
Who has not felt the inspirational and uplifting influence of
a great picture !
Macfobius informs us that it was sometimes debated be-
tween Cicero and Roscius as to which of the two could ex-
press a thought more forcibly, the one by his words or the
other by his gestures. So that we find Roscius writing a
treatise to prove that gestures and pantomime could express
a thought more forcibly than could be expressed by words
of eloquence. There is a power of eloquent expression in
art that can not be surpassed by rounded periods or flowing
sentences.
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Take by way of illustration the picture of the boy Christ,
a familiar picture in many of your homes. There is in that
picture a condensed record of His life, — the expression of
innocent childhood, the strange consciousness of power and
wisdom far beyond his years, the expression of a broad
sympathy, the manifestation of sinless purity, and above
all, the expression of the divine that marks Him as the Son
of God, the Saviour of mankind.
It is likewise the power and province of art to lend a
new charm and a new interest to familiar things, for it is
not at all unusual for us to behold some new beauty which
we had never seen until presented to us on the glowing can-
vas. Browning tells us:
“ For don’t you mark, we’re made so, that we love
First when we see them painted, things we have passed
Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see.”
The symbols of Masonry are master paintings alive with
meaning and suited to inspire. Pictures they are which not
merely reproduce the things of nature or the conception of
some ideal scene, but contain the visible forms of virtue and
of learning. Neglect the symbols of Masonry, then, and you
neglect its very essence. I do not wonder, then, that a dis-
tinguished Past Grand Master of another State should have
written: “Brethren, none of us are sufficiently alive to the
importance of the symbolism of our science. It is not only
in the beauty of those of our symbols with which we are
made familiar in the ordinary lodge lectures ; nor yet in
the uniformly wise and wholesome moral lessons they con-
vey that their importance consists. No little is to be credited
to the mode of teaching itself. Indeed, I am persuaded in
this its importance largely consists. Much of the moral force
and metaphorical beauty of our symbols are too often lost
to the neophyte in the meagerness of our lodge lectures,
as generally delivered ; and in some cases by their entire
omission. Yet, to the Mason who will attend lodge with
regularity, and an honest desire to learn, and will bring to
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the task a candid inquisitive disposition of mind, they will
grow in significance until they fill the soul with admiration
and love for the great truths they embody and convey.
Then it is after the mind has been imbued and filled with
their noble lessons, we begin to see and to appreciate the
value and the superiority of the mode by which these truths
are taught and impressed on us.”
The question presents itself, “ Has Masonry been a suc-
cessful school?” To answer the question we need only turn
to the pages of history and we find that the great, the illus-
trious and the good through all the centuries have studied
the mysteries, the sacred rites, the solemn and eternal
truths which Masonry unfolds to those who devoutly enter
the precincts of her temple and bow as sincere applicants
before her altars. Passing over earlier records we need only
mention the names of those who in more modern times have
been enrolled in the Masonic Fraternity, and whose great-
ness and goodness have shed lustre and renown upon that
Alma Mater from whom they had received blessings untold.
Hear the names, you have heard them before : Matthew
Hale, that profound lawyer, skilled in equity and jurispru-
dence. John Locke, the philosopher who interpreted for us
the mysteries of thought. Sir Isaac Newton, the master-
mind of all the world who pierced the Empyrean blue and
held converse with the stars and told to us how those island
gems hold straight their course through boundless seas of
ether light. George Washington, whose name will stand as
the synonym of all that is pure and true and good, whose
words of wisdom and whose example of patriotism have
made of America the foremost nation of the world. But
why should I weary you by calling a roll of names which
could not be half exhausted were I to detain you until yonder
stars whose fadeless glory does not surpass the matchless
excellence of heroes and worthies whose names I could
mention, until yonder stars had fled from the bursting glory
of a rising sun.
Is it an accident that the great and the good of all cen-
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turies were Masons? Can it be that the heroes and worthies
of all ages and climes have by a strange unanimity turned
their thoughts toward Masonry? Nay, verily, by far the
more reasonable explanation of the fact is that Masonry
by the virtues she enjoins, by the vices she condemns and
above all by her systems, her matchless system of symbolic
teaching, has inspired or helped to inspire the thoughts and
purposes that made these great. We all admit that a college
or university is known by the character and success of its
alumni, the alumni are. the product and output of the school
and serve as a measure of its real value.
May not the same thing be said of the school of Masonry?
And while her illustrious sons shed glory upon the Masonic
Order, may it not, in part at least, be due to the fact that
Masonry first inspired in them high and holy aspiration and
imparted to them that which made them great?
But I must close. Other institutions and orders have
copied from Masonry ritualistic ceremonies, fraternal fea-
tures and charitable and eleemosynary benefits, and through
these have sought to rival that from which they had copied.
Perhaps in some of these characteristics they have approxi-
mated the glory of Masonry, perhaps in mere beneficence
through sick benefits and through life insurance they may
have surpassed the institution of Masonry, but these things
constitute not the essence of Masonry, but only the outer
manifestations, the visible garments of the Order. The
heart and essence of Masonry is a higher and holier thing
than sociability brought about by drinking and feasting, —
a higher and holier thing than issuing a life insurance
policy for which a full and valuable consideration is asked
and paid, — a higher and holier thing ' than banding men
together by oaths and promises for mutual aggrandizement
and the giving of signs and grips whereby parties to a
sometimes unholy confederation may make themselves
known to each other, — it is a great school for the practicing
of virtue, for the manifestation of self-control, for the pur-
suit of wisdom and the acquirement of all those arts and
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graces that lift man up and league him in fellowship with
the infinite. So that while others may copy the outward
dress of Masonry they can not copy her inward grace that
remains forever the heart and center of our Order.
Throughout the evangelical world of Christians, there
rises the universal cry of “back to Christ.” Somewhat akin
to the same idea I would raise the watchword for Masonry
thus early in the new century “back to the symbols,” mag-
nify the school and restore to its former place that unsur-
passed text-book, the chart of symbols which contain in
embryo the wisdom of the world.
These things others can not take from us without being
caught in the act, or their pilfering be made known to the
world. When Masons themselves shall have fully realized
that the institution is something more than a mere secret
fraternity and shall make others understand it, when each
brother shall practice the virtues enjoined and shall devoutly
study the symbolisms of the Order, learning the wisdom
condensed therein, then shall the Order rise like the strong--
winged bird of the air awakened by the sun, soaring aloft
to the trackless sky, leaving behind the owls and bats and
birds of lesser wing. “Yes, then will our flight upward
and onward be like the eagle’s” :
“Proudly careering his course of joy,
Firm in his own mountain vigor relying;
Breasting the dark storm, the red bolt defying,
His wing on the wind, his eye on the sun,
He swerves not a hair, but bears onward, right on.
Mason, may the eagle’s flight ever be thine,
Onward and upward and true to the line.”
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Bro. John Nichols offered the following resolution,
which was unanimously adopted by a rising vote :
Resolved , That our thanks are extended to Brother
Marshall for his excellent and eloquent address, and that
we ask of him a copy to be incorporated in the minutes of
this Grand Communication.
An invitation from Mr. John E. Ray, principal of the
School fot Deaf and Blind, was extended to the Grand
Lodge to visit that Institution tomorrow.
On motion, the Grand Secretary was instructed to
acknowledge receipt of the invitation with thanks and re-
gret that the business of the Grand Lodge was so full and
urgent that it would be impossible- for the Grand Lodge to
accept the invitation.
Standing committees were announced as follows :
Foreign Correspondence:
Dr. John A. Collins, J. G. Snyder, A. J. Harris.
Finance:
W. H. Bain, W. E. Faison, S. J. Hinsdale.
Unfinished Business :
H. C. Butler, M. Blalock, E. R. Wilson.
Propositions and Grievances :
No. i — W. H. McLaurin, E. B. Blackwell, C. E. Blount.
No. 2 — J. T. Alderman, U. L. Spence, J. C. Munds.
Credentials :
W. E. Jones, J. L. Bundy, W. T. Harding.
A ppeals :
S. E. Gidney, S. W. Minor, Jas. D. Glenn, L. V. Morrill, A. L.
Smoot.
Fraternal Dead :
M. C. S. Noble, S. M. Beasley, R. S. Rheinhart.
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Returns of Subordinate Lodges :
No. i — T. H. Calvert, P. C. Layne, J. L. Peed, Claud Stephenson.
No. 2 — F. A. Costner, Chas. E. Whitney, J. M. Balmer, Wm.
Hinnant.
No. 3 — C. W. Grice, J. PI. Withers, Geo. E. Beard, Geo. A. Matton.
Charters and Dispensations :
No. i — B. W. Hatcher, J. B. Griggs, T. R. Christman.
No. 2 — C. F. Bahnson, A. N. Campbell, S. H. Rountree, Sr.
J urisprudence :
E. F. Lamb, W. B. McKoy, J. C. Biggs, T. B. Womack, J. H. Flem-
ing, P. M. Pearsall, F. P. Hobgood, Jr., S. J. Calvert, W. B. Gaither.
Orphan Asylum:
Samuel H. Smith, J. L. Currin, F. D. Jones, S. L. Parks, F. M.
Moye, C. W. Morgan, Dr. Jno. H. Hill.
Special Committee on Charity :
John Nichols, G. N. Walters, J H. Mullins.
The Grand Lodge was then called from labor to re-
freshment until tomorrow morning at 9:30 o’clock.
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SECOND DAY— Morning Session,
Wednesday, January 15, 1902.
^KIIE Grand Lodge was called from refreshment to
labor at 9:30 o’clock, a. m., Most Worshipful Grand
Master B. S. Royster presiding.
The proceedings of last evening’s session were read
and approved.
Bro. W. S. Primrose, Auditor of the Grand Lodge,
make the following reports, which were r.ead and on mo-
tion referred to the Finance Committee :
Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 9, 1902.
To the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
North Carolina :
I have made careful examination of the books, receipts
and disbursements of Bro. John C. Drewry, Grand Secre-
tary, for the year just ended, and have found them well
kept and in excellent shape.
Receipts for the past year have been' $7,647.55. Paid
to William Simpson, Grand Treasurer, $7,647.55, as shown
by receipts of that officer.
It is a matter of gratification to note from the figures
shown on Brother Drewry’s books that the Grand Lodge in
this State is growing in power and influence for good, as
may be evidenced by a comparison of the past few years,
showing the receipts of each year,
Year ending January, 1899 $6,126 20
Year ending January, 1900 6,350 70
Year ending January, 1901 6,944 50
• Year ending January, 1902 7,647 55
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thus showing a handsome gain, especially during the year
just ended, for which the Grand Secretary is to be commend-
ed for constant and the most intelligent diligence in the
work of his office. A decided gain in membership is also
noted, showing that Masonry is in a good, healthful and
vigorous condition in this jurisdiction.
Very respectfully submitted,
W. S. Primrose,
A uditor.
Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 9, 1902.
To the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
North Carolina :
I have examined the books, receipts, disbursements
and vouchers of Bro. William Simpson, Grand Treasurer,
for the year ending Jan. 9, 1902, and find them to be neatly,
plainly, and well kept. The examination shows larger re-
ceipts than for previous years.
Balance on hand Jan. 9, 1901 $ 4,868 30
Receipts during the year have been as follows:
From Samuel H. Rountree $ 1 00
From interest on Fllington note 80 00
From the Grand Secretary 7,647 55
7,728 55
Making a total of $12,596 85
Disbursements for the same time 7,274 00
' Leaving a balance on hand of $ 5,322 85
which is on deposit in the Citizens National Bank of Raleigh,
N. C.
Very respectfully submitted,
W. S. Primrose,
A uditor.
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Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 9, 1902.
To the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
North Carolina :
I have made careful examination of the books, accounts
and vouchers of Bro. G. Rosenthal, Treasurer of the North
Carolina Oxford Orphan Asylum, and have found them to
have been kept in excellent manner, showing careful atten-
tion to every detail connected with the work.
The last examination was made to May x, 1899,
showing a balance at that time of $ 2,650 05
Receipts since to Nov. 30, 1901 70,552 53
Making a total of 173,262 58
Disbursements for same period 68,109 12
Leaving a balance Nov. 30, 1901 $ 5,093 46
On deposit as follows:
In the Bank of Granville - 4,093 46
In Raleigh Savings Bank 1,000 00
Total $ 5,093 46
Very respectfully submitted,
W. S. Primrose,
Auditor.
Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 9, 1902.
To the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
North Carolina :
I have examined the accounts and vouchers of the
Building Fund of the North Carolina Oxford Orphan Asy-
lum from the date of the last examination, July 1, 1899.
When there was a balance on hand of $ 179 03
Receipts since that date to Nov. 30, 1901 4,592 40
Making a total of $ 4,771 43
Disbursements for the same time 4,308 40
Leaving a balance in the hands of the Su-
perintendent of the Asylum of $ 463 03
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The accounts are kept by Bro. G. Rosenthal, Treasurer
of the Asylum, and with all vouchers are neatly and care-
fully filed and are in first-rate shape.
Very respectfully submitted,
W. S. Primrose,
A uditor.
Bro. John A. Collins, Chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Correspondence, submitted the Special Report of
the Committee upon the request for fraternal recognition
by the Grand Lodge of the Island of Cuba (see Appendix),
which was read and adopted.
Bro. John Nichols, Past Grand Master, from the Spe-
cial Committee on Charity, made the following report,
which was read and adopted :
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina;
The Special Committee on Charity, appointed at the
last Annual Communication of this Grand Body, submit the
following report:
During the year there have been fifteen applications
presented for the consideration of the Committee, as fol-
lows :
Loss by fire 8
Destitute widows 2
Loss by floods iu the West 2
One-legged veteran. 1
Cut leg 1
For medical treatment at sanitarium 1
Total 15
Approved , 5
Not approved 10
15
Not one of the eight applications for relief on account
of loss by fire received the approval of your Committee. It
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did not appear that in either case the applicants were ren-
dered destitute in consequence of their losses, although some
of them were serious. And we wish to repeat what has been
said before, Masonry is not an insurance company, and can
not afford to make good, in whole or in part, the losses by
fire which owners of property might have guarded against.
This Committee has endeavored to confine its approval of
applications for relief to cases that merited the assistance
of the Fraternity at large. There are many brethren in dif-
ferent parts of the State who need aid from time to time,
and widows who should be cared for, but the local lodges
are the proper places for them to seek relief.
Begging circulars are annoying to lodges, and they
should be reduced to the lowest number possible.
Respectfully submitted,
John Nichols,
John W. Thompson,
Geo. N. Walters,
Committee.
Bro. John Nichols offered the following resolution,
which was read and referred to the Committee on Jurispru-
dence :
Resolved , That whenever any Subordinate Lodge shall
annually remit the dues of one of its members in consequence
of old age, poverty or distress, such Subordinate Lodge shall
not be required to pay the per capita tax for such member
to the Grand Lodge.
Resolved further , That whenever a Subordinate Lodge
shall claim such remission of the per capita tax, the reason
for such claim shall be stated in the Annual Returns of
membership to this Grand .Lodge.
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Bro. John W. Cotten, Past Grand Master, from the
Special Committee on Grand Master’s Address, made the
following report, which was read and adopted :
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina ;
Your Committee, to whom was referred the address of
the Grand Master, having considered the same, beg leave to
report :
We have read and studied with much pleasure the
able and eloquent address of our Most Worshipful Grand
Master.
It presents a clear and concise summary of his official
acts, and shows substantial and gratifying- progress of the
Order the past year.
It breathes throughout the true spirit of Masonry, and
is in itself an inspiration to greater achievements in Masonic
life. For two years our Grand Master has indeed served the
Craft faithfully and well, and in the discharge of the duties
of his exalted station has at all times reflected great credit
on himself, and honor to the Fraternity.
We recommend that the several subjects noticed in the
address be referred to appropriate committees as follows :
So much as relates to the Orphan Asylum, to the Com-
mittee on Orphan Asylum. All that relates to decisions, to
the Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence. All that relates
to Fraternal Dead, to Committee on Necrology.
In the matter of the suspensions reported by the Grand
Master, we heartily approve and endorse his action and
recommend that a special committee be appointed to take
charge of the trial of the suspended brothers.
We congratulate the Grand Lodge upon the fact that
the most fraternal and cordial relations still exist between
our own and sister Grand Jurisdictions, and we heartily
approve the action of the Grand Master in establishing
closer fraternal relations between this Grand Lodge and the
Grand Lodge of New Zealand.
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That the recommendations of the Grand Master in re-
gard to the placing of the authorized work within the reach
of every lodge in the State, being a radical change in our
present system and a matter of very great importance,
recommend that the same be referred to a special commit-
tee of five, to report at this Grand Communication.
We heartily approve the recommendation of the Grand
Master as to the codification of the laws and decisions of
the Grand Lodge.
All of which is fraternally submitted.
John W. Gotten,
F. M. Move,
Committee.
A communication from Brother Hage was read and
ordered filed.
The Grand Master requested Bro. John C. Drewry,
Grand Secretary, to retire and recognized Past Grand
Master John Cotten, who spoke of the excellent condition
of the Grand Lodge finances and stated that it was due to
the faithful work of our efficient Grand Secretary, Bro.
John C. Drewry.
That Brother Drewry would not accept an increase in
salary, although the work was now double what it was
when he was elected Grand Secretary.
He thought the Grand Lodge should show its appre-
ciation for the work of its Grand Secretary, and that as he
was shortly to be married, he moved that a committee
of three be appointed to select and present to Brother
Drewry and his bride a bridal present worthy of the
Grand Lodge and the esteem it felt for him, as its
Grand Secretary.
The motion was unanimously adopted by a rising
vote.
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The Grand Master appointed Bros. W. S. Liddell,
Senior Grand Warden, R. H. Bradley, Grand Tiler,
and W. P. White as the committee to carry the order
of the Grand Lodge into effect.
Brother Hatcher, from Committee No. i on Charters
and Dispensations, submitted the following report, which
was read and approved :
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina:
We, your Committee No. i on Charters and Dispensa-
tions, beg leave to report that we have carefully examined
the proceeding's and By-laws of the following lodges, name-
ly: Roberdell Lodge, at Roberdell, in Richmond County;
Barnardsville Lodge, at Banardsville, in Buncombe County ;
Lattimore Lodge, at Lattimore, in Cleveland Couuty ; Scot-
land Lodge, at Gibson, in Scotland County ; Caroleen Lodge,
at Caroleen, in Rutherford County; Sylva Lodge, at Sylva,
in Jackson County; Belhaven Lodge, at Belhaven, in Beau-
fort County, and find them correct, and recommend that
Charters be granted and that their Representatives be admit-
ted to seats on the floor.
Respectfully submitted,
B. W. Hatcher,
J. B. Griggs,
T. R. Christman,
■ Committee.
Bro. C. F. Bahnson, from Committee No. 2 on Char-
ters and Dispensations, submitted the following report,
which was read and adopted :
To the Most Worship fill Grand Lodge of North Carolina:
We, your Committee No. 2 on Charters and Dispensa-
tions, respectfully report :
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We have carefully examined the papers and proceedings
of the following lodges, and recommend that they be granted
Charters :
Aulander, Aulander, Bertie County; Lone Hickory,
Footville, Yadkin County; Whetstone, Bessemer City, Gas-
ton County; Farmville, Farmville, Pitt County.
Respectfully submitted,
Chas. F. Bahnson,
S. H. Rountree, Sr.,
A. N. Campbell,
Committee.
The Grand Master announced special committees as
follows :
Committee on recommendation of Grand Master in
regard to the system of work — John W. Cotten, L. H. All-
red, T. L. Booth, H. B. Varner, S. L. Parks.
Committee to prefer charges and conduct trial against
the Masters suspended by the Grand Master — T. B. Wom-
ack, C. L. Abernathy, R. H. Powell.
The following resolution was introduced by Past
Grand Master Wm. R Cox, which was read and after be-
ing amended by adding Brother Cox to the Committee was
adopted :
Resolved , That the Committee on Masonic Temple be
directed to have prepared a suitable plan of building for the
meetings of the Grand Lodge and ascertain and report at
the next special or regular session of the Grand Lodge,
whether a suitable lot can be secured at a reasonable price
in the City of Raleigh, on which said building can be erected,
and said Committee shall further report the cost of the build-
ing and the location and cost of said lot, and the most prac-
ticable plan for erecting the building and raising the money
for purposes aforesaid. That the Grand Master and Grand
Secretary be added to this Committee.
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On motion of Bro. N. B. Broughton, the exemplifica-
tion of the work was made a special order for this after-
noon, between the hours of 4 and 6 o’clock, p. m.
Bro. C. F. Bahnson introduced the following resolu-
tion, which was read and adopted :
Resolved , That the form of Petition for Degrees be
amended as follows : Insert in the petition for the degrees
after ‘ ‘usages and customs of Masonry” the following : ‘ ‘And
freely and voluntarily record my answers to the following
questions :
Where were you born?
What is your age?
What is your occupation?
Where do you reside?
How long have you resided there?
Have you ever been proposed as a candidate and rejected
in any Masonic Lodge?
When and in what lodge?
Do you believe in the existence of one ever-living and
true God?”
(Signed) A. B.
Recommended by
Date
A lettter from Dr. R. T. Vann, President of the Bap-
tist Female University, was read, extending to the Grand
Lodge an invitation to visit that Institution. On motion,
the Grand Secretary was instructed to acknowledge receipt
of the invitation with thanks and express regrets on ac-
count of our inability to accept the invitation as a body.
The following motion was introduced by Bro. B. W-
Hatcher, which, after being amended, was adopted as
follows :
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That the Grand Lodge of North Carolina appropriate
the sum of ten dollars per month for the maintenance and
support of Bro. Bernice Walker, Past Grand Lecturer, who
is now old, feeble and unable to support himself and has no
other means of support, and no one upon whom he can rely
for support, and that the sum be paid by the Grand Treas-
urer, through the officers of Mount Energy Lodge, No. 140,
upon proper vouchers and satisfactory assurances that said
sum will be properly applied as designated.
Bro. F. D. Jones, from the Committee on Orphan Asy-
lum, submitted the following report, which was read and
adopted :
To the Most Worship fill Grand Lodge of North Carolina:
Your Committee on Orphan Asylum, having carefully
considered every matter bearing upon that subject, beg
leave to make the following report :
We congratulate the Grand Lodg'e and the Masonic
Order in North Carolina upon the excellent condition of the
Asylum in every department as shown by the full, compre-
hensive reports of the Board of Directors, Treasurer and
Superintendent of the Asylum. We feel that we can not
too highly commend the efforts of those who have the
immediate direction and management of that great work,
and we heartily and unreservedly endorse their wise, busi-
ness-like and economical administration of its affairs during
the past year. That the Committee has heard, with regret,
of the resignation of Mr. B. N. Duke, from the Board of
Directors, and the Committee desires to express its appre-
ciation of the liberality which he has always shown to the
Institution, and we hear, with peculiar pleasure, that his
interest in the Institution will not cease ; we therefore recom-
mend that a committee be appointed to draft resolutions,
expressing the appreciation of the Grand Lodge of his
valued services to this Institution in the past and hope that
he may be spared many years of usefulness in the future.
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It has been the pleasure and privilege of one of your
Committee to visit and inspect the Asylum several times
during the past year and he unhesitatingly states that he
has at all times found the buildings and grounds in the best
possible condition for neatness and cleanliness and the con-
dition of the children struck him with peculiar pleasure to
see them in such fine, healthy condition, both as to their
general appearance and their cheerful and happy faces.
We heartily endorse the recommendations, alterations
and improvements as suggested in the reports of the Direc-
tors and the Superintendent, Col. W. J. Hicks, and hope
the Board will soon see its way clear to accomplish all this
work in a short time.
It is with peculiar pride and pleasure that we commend
the services of our efficient Superintendent, Col. W. J.
Hicks, and feel that he is entitled to the thanks of every
Mason in North Carolina, for his valuable and unselfish
efforts in behalf of this noble charity. The Committee also
desires to express its appreciation of the valuable and effi-
cient services of each and every employe of the Institution.
The Committee recommends the appropriation of three
thousand dollars for the support of the Institution for the
current year, being the usual annual appropriation.
Fraternally submitted,
Samuel H. Smith,
Jno. H. Hill,
S. L. Parks,
F. M. Moye,
C. W. Morgan,
J. L. Currin,
Frank D. Jones,
Committee.
The Grand Master announced that he would appoint
the Committee on Orphan Asylum to draft the resolutions
in regard to the resignation of Mr. B. N. Duke, as recom-
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mended by that Committee, with the name of Bro. John
Kichols added.
Bro. R. N. Hackett introduced the following resolu-
tion in regard to the codification of the laws and decisions
of the Grand Lodge, as recommended in report of the
Grand Master. On motion, the resolution was referred
to the Committee on Jurisprudence :
Resolved , That a commission of three be appointed to
codify the laws and prepare a digest of the decisions of the
Grand Masters, and report to the next Annual Communica-
tion of this Grand Lodge.
Bro. H. C. Butler, from Committee on LTnfinished
Business, made the following report, which was read and
adopted :
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina ;
Your Committee, after careful examination of the Pro-
ceedings of the Grand Lodge and enquiry of the Grand Sec-
retary, beg to report that they find no unfinished business
except the matter relating to the Grand Lodge of Costa
Rica, which was referred to the Standing Committee on
Masonic Jurisprudence. As the Chairman of that Commit-
tee is absent, there is no report. And your Committee
therefore recommend that the matter be continued until the
next Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge and the
Committee be given further time to report.
Respectfully submitted,
H. C. Butler,
M. Blalock,
Committee.
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Bro. Geo. A. Matton, from Committee No. 3 on Re-
turns of Subordinate Lodges, made the following report,
which was read and adopted :
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina :
Your Committee No. 3 on Returns of Subordinate
Lodges, submit the following report:
We have examined and find the returns of the follow-
ing lodges correct :
St. John’s, No. 1 ; St. John’s, No. 3; Charity, No. 5;
Unanimity, No. 7; Phoenix, No. 8; American George, No.
17; Phalanx, No. 31; Stokes, No. 32; David, No. 39;
Hiram, No. 40; Liberty, No. 45; Hall, No. 53; Concord,
No. 58; Kilwinning, No. 64: Eagle, No. 71; Widow’s Son,
No. 75; Greensboro, No. 76; Zion, No. 81; Fellowship, No.
84; Morning Star, No. 85; Skewarkey, No. 90; Western
Star, No. 91; Joseph Warren, No. 92 ; Jerusalem, No. 95;
St. John’s, No. 96; Hiram, No. 98; Fulton, No. 99; Warren,
No. 101 ; Columbus, No. 102; Orr, No. 104; Perquimans,
No. ro6; Franklin, No. 109; Wayne, No. 112; Person, No.
1 13; St: Albans, No. 114; Holly Springs, No. 115; Mt.
Lebanon, No. 117; Mt. Hermon, No. 118; Franklinton, No.
123; Blackmer, No. 127; Hanks, No. 128; Radiance, No.
132; Mocksville, No. 134; Leaksville, No. 136; Lincoln,
No. 137; King Solomon, No. 138; Carolina, No. 141 ; Mt.
Vernon, No. 143; Junaluska, No. 145 ; Cherokee, No. 146;
Palmyra, No. 147; Chalmers, No. 151; White Stone, No.
155; Knap of Reeds, No. 158; Yadkin, No. 162; Deep River,
No. 164; Winston, No. 167; Blackmer, No. 170; George
Washington, No. 174; Polloksville, No. 175; Siloam, No.
178; Carthage, No. 181; Sandy Creek, No. 185; Central
Cross, No. 187; Fair Bluff, No. 190; Burnsville, No. 192;
Mt. Olivet, No. 195; Cary, No. 198; King Solomon, No. 56;
Neuse, No. 97; Mt. Energy, No. 140 ; Adoniram, No. 149;
Rolesville, No. 156; Mt. Pleasant, No. 157; Archer, No.
165; Granite, No. 191; Mingo, No. 206; Henderson, No.
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229;Lenior, No. 233; Lillington, No. 302; Hatcher, No. 310;
Falling Creek, No. 325; N. F. Reid, No. 344; Tally Ho,
No. 393; Orient, No. 395; Louisburg, No. 413; Rusk, No.
456; Buies Creek, No. 503.
The following Lodge Returns had no seal attached ;
Belmont, No. 108 ; Seaboard, No. 378; Liberty Grove,
No. 407.
The following Lodge Returns were signed by the
Worshipful Master instead of Secretary:
St. John’s, No. 3.
Fraternally submitted,
The Grand Lodge was then called from labor to
refreshment until 2:30 o’clock this afternoon.
C. W. Grice,
Geo. E. Beard,
Geo. A. Matton,
Committee.
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SEGOPSD DAY---Afternoon Session.
Wednesday, January 15, 1902.
Grand Lodge was called from refreshment to labor
^si/'at 2:30 o’clock, p. m., Most Worshipful Grand Master
B, {3. Royster presiding.
The proceedings of the morning session were read and
approved.
Bro. M. C. S. Noble, from Committee on Fraternal
Dead, submitted the following report, which was read and
adopted :
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina:
The Committee on Fraternal Dead beg leave to submit
the following report :
Death, who knocks with equal tread at the door of the
palace and the cottage-gate, has been busy at his appointed
work during the past Masonic year, and when we contem-
plate the list of our own faithful Craftsmen, and of the illus-
trious brethren of sister Grand Jurisdictions whose honored
shoulders have worn the purple of our Fraternity but who
have been forced to obey his dreaded summons, we may in
sorrow and in truth exclaim, Well mightest thou now, oh
Death, pause and recline beneath the laurels thou hast won,
for ne’er didst nobler hearts cease to throb ; thy chilling
touch which spared not even our distinguished brother
who wore, worthily, the highest civic honors of the land.
To our sister Grand J urisdictions who have suffered loss as
shown in our Grand Master’s address, we extend our deepest
sympathy in their bereavement.
We rejoice that our own jurisdiction has lost none of its
Grand Officers or Past Grand Officers, and while we take
thankful pleasure in this mark of divine favor, we suffer
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89
human sorrow because of the fact that during the past year
two hundred and six members of the Craft have been called
from us to labor in the celestial lodge above. These breth-
ren, in the quiet, unostentatious life of Master Mason, have
contributed their share to that increased growth and power
of our Grand Jurisdiction in which we all take just Masonic
pride and pleasure. Their lives be our priceless heritage,
our joyous inspiration, to so live that men may know by
our unheralded but effective work the genuine worth of true
Masonic life and conduct.
Fraternally submitted,
M. C. S. Noble,
R. S. Rheinhart,
S. M. Beasley,
Committee.
Bro. W. E. Faison, from the Committee on Finance,
presented the following report, which was read and adopted :
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina:
We have carefully examined the reports of the Grand
Treasurer and Grand Secretary, together with the report of
Bro. W. S. Primrose, Auditor, and find same correct.
W. E. Faison,
for Finance Committee.
Brother Rouse was recognized and made an earnest
appeal to the Grand Lodge for greater moral endeavors
during the year.
Bro. F. A. Costner, from Committee No. 2 on Returns
of Subordinate Lodges, presented the following report,
which was read and adopted ;
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To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina:
We, of Committee No. 2 on Returns of Subordinate
Lodges, respectfully submit the following' report:
We have examined and find the returns of the following
lodges correct :
Joppa, No. 401; Dobson, No. 402; Siler City, No. 403;
Farmer’s, No. 404; Ocean, No. 405; Ivy, No. 406; Univer-
sity, No. 408; Bula, No. 409; Rockville, No. 41 1; Henry F.
Grainger, No. 412; New Hope, No. 415; Bellview, No. 416;
Maxton, No. 417; Potecasi, No.. 418; Greenwood, No. 419;
Boonville, No. 421; Baltimore, No. 424; Eastern Star, No.
425 ; Oconee, No. 427 ; Stokesdale, No. 428 ; Sea Side, No. 429 ;
Rockyford, No. 430; Relief, No. 431; King’s Creek, No. 432;
Vanceboro, No. 433; Star, No. 437; Marble Spring, No. 439;
Clingman, No. 440; Waxhaw, No. 442; Roper, No. 443;
Marietta, No. 444; Biltmore, No. 446; Enfield,. No. 447;
Ingold, No. 448; Polenta, No. 450; Grifton, No. 452; Clyde,
No. 453; Elkin, No. 454; Pineville, No. 455; Grapevine,
No. 457; Dillsboro, No. 459; Henrietta, No. 460 ; Matthews,
No. 461; South Fork, No. 462; Currituck, No. 463; Boiling
Springs, No. 464; Gulf, No. 465; King Hiram, No. 466;
Healing Springs, No. 467; Millingport, No. 468; Sanford,
No. 469; Grassy Knob, No. 471; Sonoma, No. 472; Lexing-
ton, No. 473; St. Paul’s, No. 474; Grimesland, No. 475;
Big Lick, No. 476; Eagle Spring, No. 477; Four Oaks, No.
478; Rainbow, No. 479; Mill Bank, No. 480; Spring Hope,
No. 481; Saluda, No. 482; Aberdeen, No. 484; Brasstown,
No. 4854 Lawndale, No. 486; Statesville, No. 487; Rich
Square, No. 488; Buggaboo, No. 490; Hominy, No. 491;
Thos. M. Holt, No. 492; Pilot, No. 493; John A. Graves,
No. 494; Rockingham, No. 495; Mooresville, No. 496;
Royal Flart, No. 497; Ayden, No. 498; Creedmoor, No. 499;
Raleigh, No. 500; Red Springs, No. 501; Cookville, No.
502; Luke McGlaughan, No. 504; Cherryville, No. 505;
Unaka, No. 506.
We have examined the following and find them irregu-
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lar, in that they do not bear the seal of their respective
lodges, otherwise we find them correct:
West Bank, No. 434: Blue Ridge, No. 435; Scotland
Neck, No. 470.
Fraternally submitted,
F. A. Costner,
C. E. Whitney,
Committee .
Bro. S. E. Gidney, from the Committee on Appeals,
made the following reports, which were read and adopted :
To the Most Worship ful Grand Lodge of North Carolina ;
Your Committee on Appeals, to whom was referred the
matter ofappeal of Bro. JohnH. Ray, of Grape Vine Lodge,
No. 457, A. F. & A. M., respectfully submit the following-
report :
First. We have carefully examined the papers in the
case and find that the said Ray was indefinitely suspended
on the charge of unmasonic conduct, to-wit : In being too in-
timate with another man’s wife.
Second. We find that it does not appear that every facility
was allowed the accused for his defense in that he was not
permitted to be heard in defense, as provided in Article XIV,
Section 5, of Code ; nor does it appear that he was duly noti-
fied of the taking of the affidavits, which were read in evi-
dence against him and over his protest. It does appear,
however, that hearsay evidence was admitted against the
accused. (See Article XIII, Section 4, and Article XIV,
Section 3, of Code.) We therefore recommend that the Grand
Lodge do not confirm the proceedings in said case, and that
a new trial be granted.
Fraternally submitted,
Samuel E. Gidney,
Sidney W. Minor,
L. V. Morrill,
A. L. Smoot,
Committee.
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To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina;
We, your Committee on Appeals, to whom was referred
the matter of appeal of Bro. John F. Muselwhite, of Leban-
on Lodge, No. 391, A. F. & A. M., respectfully submit the
following report :
We find that the accused plead guilty to the charges
as specified. The lodge then heard evidence and inflicted
the penalty of indefinite suspension. There has appeared
nothing- to this Committee to show cause why the action of
the Subordinate Lodge should be interfered with. We
therefore recommend that the appeal be dismissed.
Fraternally submitted,
Samuel E. Gidney,
L. V. Morrill,
Sidney W. Minor,
A. L. Smoot,
Committee.
Bro. W. B. McKoy introduced the following resolu-
tion, which was read and adopted ;
Resolved, That the Grand Secretary be empowered to
publish the Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of North Caro-
lina, beginning with their first organization, up to the date
that the reports have been published and are extant ; and
for that purpose in each succeeding annual report an appen-
dix be added which shall contain a part of these ancient
Proceeding's, until all have been published and that a suffi-
cient fund be appropriated for that purpose.
Bro. L. V. Morrill, from the Committee on Appeals,
presented the following report, which was read and adopted ;
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina:
Your Committee on Appeals, to whom was referred the
matter of appeal of Bro. W. L. Marks, of Cleveland Lodge,
No. 202, A. F. & A. M., respectfully submit the following
report :
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93
We have carefully examined the charges preferred,
the evidence taken at the trial or the facts agreed upon as
submitted to us and the defendant’s grounds of appeal. We
find that the defendant’s first ground of appeal is not well
taken for the reason that the language used, which was a
verbatim recital of the negative part of the obligation of
the first degree, was a violation of his obligation, and was
unmasonic conduct. We find that the defendant’s second
ground of appeal is without merit for the reason that the
penalty imposed is not excessive. We therefore recommend
that the appeal be dismissed.
Fraternally submitted,
L. V. Morrill,
Sidney W. Minor,
A. L. Smoot,
Committee.
S. E. Gidney being a member of Cleveland Lodge, No.'
202, did not act with the Committee on this appeal.
Bro. John Nichols presented the following resolutions
from the Committee on Orphan Asylum, which were read
and unanimously adopted :
RESOLUTIONS OF THANKS TO BENJAMIN N. DUKE.
Genuine happiness is in making others happy. True
benevolence is in giving to those who have nothing to give.
This Grand Lodge has learned, with profound regret,
that Benjamin N. Duke, late of Durham, this State, and for
a number of years a member of the Board of Directors of
the Oxford Orphan Asylum, in consequence of his change of
residence, has found it necessary to resign the position he
has so usefully and acceptably filled. To this patriotic and
benevolent citizen this Grand Lodge owes much for the
present excellent and prosperous condition of the Oxford
Orphan Asylum. His contributions have been cheerfully
and promptly given and with no stinted hand. For the
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handsome and comfortable cottages that surround the main
building of the Asylum and adorn the magnificent grove,
we are indebted to the liberality of this North Carolina Phi-
lanthropist. In changing his residence, Mr. Duke leaves an
impress upon his native State as lasting and permanent as
her granite hills, and
“ A name among the immortal few
That were not born to die.”
Therefore , Resolved, That in his new home and new field
of labor, this Grand Lodge extends to Mr. B. N. Duke its
earnest prayers and well' wishes for his future health, pros-
perity and happiness, and assures him that he has a warm
place in the affections of the Masons of North Carolina.
Resolved, That for the many liberal acts of kindness
and munificent contributions to the Orphan Asylum, he has
the profound thanks of this Grand Lodge.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be handsome-
ly written on parchment and framed, and furnished to Mr.
Duke.
Fraternally submitted,
Samuel H. Smith,
F. M. Move,
J. L. CURRIN,
Jno. Id. Hill,
C. W. Morgan,
S. L. Parks,
Frank D. Jones,
John Nichols,
Committee.
Bro. F. P. Hobgood, Jr., from the Special Committee
appointed at the last session of the Grand Lodge, in regard
to the Allen claim, made the following report, which was
read :
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To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina;
In behalf of the Special Committee appointed at the
last Annnal Communication of this Grand Body to investi-
gate and report as to the merit and status of the claim of
the heirs of L. P. Allen, deceased, against the Grand Lodge,
I beg leave to report :
That I have searched carefully the records in the office
of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Granville County and
have obtained the information contained in the extracts
from the records hereto appended and offered as part of
this report :
“Minute Docket” from May, 1857, to August, 1861.
Page 321.
Saturday, 7 May, 1859.
Cameron W. Allen, Surviving Partner of |
C. W. & L. P. Allen, under the firm of
Allen & Brother j- Debt.
vs.
The Trustees of St. John’s College. J
Same jury as in No. 13 being chosen, tried and sworn
to try the issues joined between the parties, say that they
find all of said issues in favour of the plaintiffs, and assess
their damages by reason of the detention of the debt in the
declaration mentioned to $324.14. It is therefore considered
by the Court that the said plaintiff do recover against the
said Trustees the sum of $2,717.84, it being the principal
sum due upon the bond declared on. It is further con-
sidered that he recover against the said defendants his afore-
said damages, with interest on the principal of said bond
from the first day of the present term until paid, and also
his costs of suit.
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“Triad Docket” from February, 1859, to August, i860.
Appearance Docket.
May Court, 1859.
C. W. Allen, Sur. Part., )
vs. j- Debt.
Trustees of St. John’s College. )
Judgment by default final. See Minutes.
Record Book 22, page 479.
First Account Robt. L. Heflin, Administrator . David
Allen.
1865.
“One debt on St. John’s College due by judg-
ment for $ 2,709 33”
The records in Granville, as far as your Committee is
able to report, do not disclose the payment of any sums in
liquidation of this judgment; the Proceedings of the Grand
Lodge, however, show that in the year 1868 a resolution
was offered to pay L. A. Paschall, Guardian of the children
of David Allen, to whom had descended the one-third inter-
est of C. W. Allen in the' judgment in favor of Allen &
Brothers, $1,033, that amount being the interest of such chil-
dren in said judgment. It would seem, however, that this
resolution was not carried into effect, for at the next ses-
sion of the Grand Lodge, a resolution to pay the children of
David Allen the sum of $1,200 for purposes of clothing,
education, etc., was passed and the money paid to Maj.
T. B. Venable, for Mr. L. A. Paschall, Guardian.
Further information than that above given is not in
possession of your Committee.
Fraternally submitted,
F. P. Hobgood, Jr.,
for the Committee.
O11 motion, the report was re-committed with in-
structions to make further investigations and recommen-
dations and report tomorrow morning.
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The hour for the Special Order having arrived, it was
taken up. The Grand Lecturers proceeded to exemplify
the work of the Grand Lodge.
The Grand Lodge was then called from labor to re-
freshment until 8 o’clock, p. m.
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SEGOND DAY— Evening Session.
Wednesday, January 15, 1902.
^P'HE Grand Lodge was called from refreshment to
labor at 8 o’clock, p. M., Most Worshipful Grand
Master B. S. Royster presiding.
The proceedings of the afternoon session were read
and approved.
Bro. S. L. Parks, from the Special Committee to
whom was referred that portion of the Grand Master’s
Address relating to the work of Subordinate Lodges, sub-
mitted the following report, which was read, and on motion
the report was considered by sections, and on motion the
report was tabled ;
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina:
Your Committee to whom was referred that portion of
the Grand Master’s Address relating to a more thorough
dissemination of the work among the Subordinate Lodges
of this Grand Jurisdiction, would respectfully report:
That we have carefully and fully considered the matter
as its great importance deserved and would recommend:
Lirs.t. That the sum of $500 be and is hereby appro-
priated to pay for such railroad transportation as may be
necessary for two Grand Lecturers, thus enabling them to
be as convenient to one lodge as to another, and they shall
use their best efforts to induce the Subordinate Lodges to
employ their services, the lodges paying only the board,
lodging, and fees of the Grand Lecturers while actually en-
gaged with them.
Second. That the fees of the Grand Lecturers shall be
$15.00 per week, while actually at work.
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Third. That the Grand Lecturers shall report to the
Grand Master immediately after each official visitation to a
lodge, fully and in detail, the result of such visitation.
In addition to their duties as disseminators of the work they
shall examine the records of each lodge they officially visit,
and make such suggestions as may be for the best interest
of the lodge and the Craft generally, and report to the Grand
Master any irregularities they may discover.
Your Committee has heard with regret and alarm of
the growing evil of the use of cipher work or books of some
kind not authorized and absolutely contrary to Masonic laws
and would suggest that upon any authentic information of
the use of such cipher coming to the knowledge of the
Grand Master, he shall at once arrest the Charter of such
lodge and prefer charges against the officers thereof.
We would suggest that this report be printed in circu-
lar form and forwarded to each lodge to be read for the
information of the brethren.
Fraternally submitted,
John W. Cotten,
T. L. Booth,
S. L. Parks,
H. B. Varner,
Committee.
Bro. T. H. Calvert, from Committee No. i on Returns
of Subordinate Lodges, submitted the following report,
which was read and adopted :
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina :
Your Committee No. i on Returns of Subordinate
Lodges submit the following report :
We have examined all the returns submitted to this
Committee by the Grand Secretary.
The returns of the following lodges are correct :
Cleveland, No. 202; Roanoke, No. 203; Berea, No. 204;
Lebanon, No. 207; Thomasville, No. 214; Catawba Valley,
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No. 217; Wm. G. Hill, No. 218; Wilson, No. 226; Jonesville,
No. 227; Wm. T. Bain, No. 231; Mystic Tie, No. 237;
Rountree, No. 243; Monroe, No. 244; Pythagoras, No. 249;
Rockford, No. 251; Lilly Valley, No. 252; Oaks, No. 255;
Kenly, No. 257; Waynesville, No. 259; Excelsior, No. 261;
Gaston, No. 263; Farmington, No. 265; Durbin, No. 266;
Dunn’s Rock, No. 267; Tobasco, No. 271; Bingham, No.
272; Watauga, No. 273; Beaver Dam, No. 276; Green Level,
No. 277; Rehoboth, No. 279; Greenville, No. 284; Flat
Creek, No. 285; Salem, No. 289; Toisnot, No. 298; Clay,
No. 301; Evergreen, No. 303; Laurinburg, No. 305; Gala-
tia, No. 306; Patterson, No. 307; Notla, No. 312; New
Lebanon, No. 314; Wilmington, No. 319; White Hill, No.
321; Granite, No. 322; Mattamuskeet, No. 328; Black Creek,
No. 330; Bayboro, No. 331; Ashpole, No. 335; Harmony,
No. 340; Hickory, No. 343; Durham, No. 352; Moravian,
No. 353; East La Porte, No. 358; Mount Vernon, No. 359;
Snow, No. 363; Craighead, No. 366; State Line, No. 375;
Granville, No. 380; Reidsville, No. 384; Scottsville, No.
385; Pigeon River, No. 386; Temperance, No. 389; Cope-
land, No. 390; Lebanon, No. 391; Cape Fear, No. 394;
Oxford, No. 396; Bald Creek, No. 397; Conoho, No. 399.
Returns without seal of lodge :
Eureka, No. 283; Pleasant Hill, No. 304; Kinston, No.
316; Shawnee, No. 382.
Return without seal of lodge, and summary of returns
not complete :
Wentworth, No. 324.
Return without seal of lodge, not certified, and summary
of returns not complete :
Corinthian, No. 230.
Returns with indistinct seals:
Long Creek, No. 205; McCormick, No. 228; Atlantic,
No. 238; Catawba, No. 248; Cedar Rock, No. 286; French
Broad, No. 292; Hunting Creek, No. 299; Eureka, No. 317;
Selma, No. 320; Fairview, No. 339; Stanly, No. 348; Bethel,
No. 372; Youngsville, No. 377; Centre, No. 398.
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Return with indistinct seal and summary not complete :
Vance, No. 293.
Returns with summary not complete :
Randleman, No. 209; Unaka, No. 268; Ionic, No. 337;
Gastonia, No. 369; Kedron, No. 387; White Rock, No. 392.
Returns with incorrect summary; apparent overpay-
ments :
Mooresboro, No. 388; Eureka, No. 317; Stonewall,
No. 396; King Solomon, No. 313; Hibriten, No. 262;
Atlantic, No. 294; Youngsville, No. 377 ; Winton, No.' 327.
Return with incorrect summary and balance due :
Fallston, No. 356.
Returns received with balance due :
Pine Forest, No. 186; Mayon, No. 360.
Returns received, dues not paid:
Mill Creek, No. 125; Mars Hill, No. 370.
Return received, dues not paid and without seal of lodge :
Cokesbury, No. 235.
Respectfully submitted,
T. H. Calvert,
J. L. Peed,
P. C. Layne,
Claude Stephenson,
Committee.
Bro. T. B. Womack, from the Special Committee to
whom was referred the suspension of Masters of Subordinate
Lodges, made the following report, which was read and
after being amended by the Committee, was adopted :
IN THE MATTER OF THE SUSPENSION OF JOHN C. CULBRETH,
MASTER OF LEBANON LODGE, NO. 391, ON NOV. 25, 1901.
To the Most Worshipful Grand Master , Officers and Brethren
of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina :
We, the undersigned, the Committee to whom was re-
ferred the matter of the suspension of John C. Culbreth, as
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Master of Lebanon Lodge, No. 391, on Nov. 25, 1901, by
the Most Worshipful Grand Master, beg leave to report:
That we have carefully considered the matter, the lodge
being represented by Brother Bynum, and the suspended
Master being represented by Bro. F. H. Cotten, who had a
power of attorney duly authorizing him to act as such.
Your Committee deem it unnecessary to prefer charges
for trial by the Grand Lodge, for the reason that it suffi-
ciently appears from the record submitted to your Commit-
tee, and from the statemets of Brother Cotten, the represent-
ative of the Master, that Brother Culbreth became intoxi-
cated on the occasion of a public picnic and excursion given
by the lodge; that the fact was and is duly admitted by
Brother Culbreth, who expresses the deepest regret for the
occurrence, and promises that there shall be no repetition of
the offense.
The matter was fully examined into by Bro. W. W.
Willson, acting as Assistant Grand Secretary, whose full re-
port is in the accompanying papers, and upon this report
the Most Worshipful Grand Master made the suspension.
It is the wish and desire of Lebanon Lodge, as expressed
by Brother Bynum, its representative, that the matter be
not further pressed against Brother Culbreth, and your
Committee deeming that the good of the cause of Masonry
will be best subserved thereby, respectfully recommend that
the action of the Most Worshipful Grand Master in suspend-
ing Brother Culbreth as Master of Lebanon Lodge, No. 391,
be, and hereby is, ratified and approved, and that, the sus-
pension as Master be made permanent for his term of office,
but that no further action be taken in the premises.
Respectfully submitted,
Thomas B. Womack,
Chas. L. Abernethy,
R. H. Powell,
Special Committee.
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Bro. T. B. Womack, from the Special Committee to
whom was referred the action of the Grand Master in sus-
pending the Masters of Subordinate Lodges, made the fol-
lowing report, which was read and adopted :
IN THE MATTER OF THE SUSPENSION OF W. A. NICHOLS, MASTER
OF NOTLA LODGE, NO. 3 12.
To the Most Worshipful Grand Master, Officers and Brethren
of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina:
The Committee to whom this case was referred, respect-
fully report :
That there were two charges preferred against Wor-
shipful Master W. A. Nichols. The first was drunken-
ness. The record shows that at a call meeting of Notla
Lodge, No. 312, W. A. Nichols admitted that he had been
drunk, and asked the lodge to permit him to resign and be
tried before the lodge as a Mason.
Your Committee believes that this record was sufficient
to authorize the suspension by the Most Worshipful Grand
Master, and upon it they respectfully recommend that the
action of the Grand Master be ratified, confirmed and ap-
proved, and further, that the suspension be made permanent
for his term of office.
Your Committee deem it unnecessary to prefer charges
upon the other matter, as the charges are denied, and sup-
ported by affidavits. No witnesses on either side are pres-
ent, or other legal evidence, and as the lodge elected
Brother Nichols Master after the conduct complained of and
there could be no trial at this Communication of this Body,
your Committee have not formulated charges, and recom-
mend action on the admissions hereinbefore stated.
Respectfully submitted,
T. B. Womack,
R. H. Powell,
Committee.
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Bro. John Nichols introduced the following resolution,
which was read, and under the rules, was ordered to lay
over until tomorrow for consideration :
Resolved , That the Grand Master of this Grand Lodge
be authorized and instructed to appoint three ‘ ‘ Custodians
of the Work,” who shall be men learned in both the law and
Ritual of Freemasonry. These Custodians shall meet not
less than four times per annum, at such times and places as
the Grand Master may direct. Their first duty shall be to
agree as to the correct work and then they may examine
and instruct brethren who may desire to become Lecturers,
and no Mason shall lecture Subordinate Lodges, until they
have been regularly commissioned by the Custodians, certi-
fying to their qualifications as competent to teach the work,
save and except officers and members of the lodge being
lectured, and any other brother instructing a lodge at its
request without compensation. Said Lectui'ers to receive
such compensation as may be agreed upon by them and the
Subordinate Lodges that may engage their services. The
said Custodians shall receive no compensation except their
actual expenses while attending the conferences, and such
pay to be approved by the Grand Master. Said Custodians
shall hold their offices for three years respectively, the term
of one expiring each year, the said terms when appointed to
be fixed by the Grand Master.
The hour for the election of Grand Officers having ar-
rived, the Grand Master appointed the following tellers, viz :
R. C. Lawrence, A. J. Harris, J. G. Snyder, J. L Currin.
The election resulted as follows:
H. I. Clark Grand Master.
W. S. Liddell Deputy Grand Master.
F. D. Winston Senior Grand Warden.
S. M. GaTTis Junior Grand Warden.
Wm. Simpson Grand Treasurer.
John C. Drewey Grand Secretary.
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Bro. John W. Cotten was elected a Director of the
Oxford Orphan Asylum.
Bro. Samuel H. Smith moved that the thanks of the
Grand Lodge be tendered to'Bro. Julian S. Carr for his faith-
ful services as Trustee of the Oxford Orphan Asylum, and
for the loyalty with which he stood by the Asylum in its
darkest days.
The motion was adopted unanimously by a rising
vote.
*
On motion, a committee was appointed to select In-
stalling Officers.
The Grand Master named the Committee as follows :
A. B Andrews, Jr., W. W. Willson, and W. H. Bain.
The Grand Lodge was called from labor to refresh-
ment until tomorrow morning at 9:30 o’clock.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
TMIRD DAY— Morning Session.
Thursday, January 16, 1902.
Grand Lodge was called from refreshment to
labor at 9:30 o’clock, a. m,, Most Worshipful Grand
Master B. S. Royster presiding.
The proceedings of last evening’s session were read
and approved.
The Committee on Installation reported that they had
secured the services of Past Grand Master R. J. Noble to
install the Grand Officers, and Bro. S. L. Parks to act as
Grand Marshal.
The following invitation to attend the Good Roads
Convention was extended to the Grand Lodge, which on
motion of Bro. A. B. Andrews, Jr., was received and Grand
Secretary was instructed to acknowledge same with thanks :
To the Grand Lodge of North Carolina , Ancient , Free and
Accepted Masons;
Gentlemen: — In behalf of the citizens, the Board of
Aldermen and the Chamber of Commerce of the City of
Raleigh and the County of Wake, we wish to invite your
Body, or such of its membership, as well as every Mason
in the State, to attend a Good Roads Convention, which
will be held in the City of Raleigh on Thursday, February
13, 1902.
At that time a train sent out over the Southern Railway,
by the National Good Roads Association, will be in our
city for a week and give a practical demonstration of road
building. A number of valuable papers have been prom-
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107
ised to be read at the convention and we hope a number of
your Body and membership throughout the State may be
with us.
Very respectfully,
A. M. Powell,
Mayor of Raleigh;
F. T. Ward,
President Chamber of Commerce ;
A. H. Green,
Chairman Board Commissioners of Wake County ,
Jan. 15, 1902. for Invitation Committee.
The representatives of The Southern Bell Telephone
Company extended an invitation to the members of the
Grand Lodge to use their lines anywhere in the United
States free of cost, any time they see fit while in this city,
attending the session of the Grand Lodge. The Grand
Secretary was instructed to acknowledge receipt of this
invitation with thanks.
The resolution introduced by Brother Nichols on the
previous day in regard to the system of work was taken up
for consideration. On motion, the resolution was tabled.
The following resolution was offered by Bro. R. J.
Noble,- which, on motion, was read and adopted ;
Resolved , That the Directors of the Oxford Orphan
Asylum, elected by the Grand Lodge, be requested to at-
tend the Annual Communications of the Grand Lodge, and
that their expenses be paid in the same manner as the ex-
penses of the Grand Officers are paid ; that the expenses of
such Directors as are in attendance at this Communication
be paid by the Grand Treasurer.
The following telegram was received and read and
ordered spread upon the minutes :
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Greenville, N. C., Jan. 16, 1902.
Hon. 1 . M. Pearsall:
Give the brethren my sincere thanks. This renewal of
esteem touches me deeply. May God prosper the work of
the Fraternity.
Francis D. Winston.
Bro. F. P. Hobgood, Jr., from Committee on Jurispru-
dence, submitted a report, which was read and adopted :
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina ;
Your Committee on Jurisprudence, to whom was re-
ferred the decisions of the Grand Master, resolution to
codify the laws and prepare a digest of the decisions of the
Grand Master and resolution in regard to remission of
Grand Lodge dues of aged and infirm brethren, respectfully
report :
That they have considered the matter referred to them
and herewith submit their report :
First. That they approve all the decisions of the Grand
Master as set out in his address.
Second. That they recommend that the Grand Master
appoint a. committee of three members of the Grand Lodge
to prepare a digest of the decisions and laws of the Grand
Lodge as a supplement to the Code.
Third. That they respectfully recommend that the res-
olution in regard to the remission of Grand Lodge dues of
aged and infirm brethren be not approved.
Respectfully submitted,
E. F. Lamb, Chairman.
T. B. Womack,
W. B. McKov,
J. H. Fleming,
S. J. Calvert,
W. B. Gaither,
F. P. FIobgood, Jr.,
for the Committee on J urisprudence.
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109
In compliance with the above report, the Grand Master
announced the following Committee to codify the decisions
and laws of the Grand Lodge : T. B. Womack, P. M. Pear-
sall, A. B. Andrews, Jr.
Bro. W. H. McLanrin, from Committee on Propositions
and Grievances, submitted the following reports, which
were read and adopted :
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North Carolina :
Your Committee respectfully report:
First. That in the complaint of Roper Lodge, ho. 443,
against Perquimans Lodge, No. 106, for infringing upon their
territory, has been satisfactorily adjusted by establishing
Albermarle Sound as their dividing line .
Second. In the application of H. F. Brandon for restora-
tion to Masonic right, referred to your Committee by the
last Grand Lodge, we respectfully report that the death of
the applicant, the past year, renders it unnecessary that any
action be taken. He is beyond our jurisdiction. May he
rest in peace.
Fraternally submitted,
W. H. McLaurin,
J. T. Alderman,
U. L. Spence,
J. C. Munds,
C. E. Blount,
Committee.
Bro. B. S. Royster, from the Special Committee to
make further investigations and recommendations in regard
to the Allen claim, made a verbal report without recom-
mendation, and after much discussion and careful consider-
ation, all motions, resolutions and amendments were
tabled.
Bro. S. W. Minor, from the Committee on Appeals,
submitted the following report, which was read and adopted :
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To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of North -Carolina:
Your Committee on Appeals in the matter of N. M.
Barrow, of Franklinton Lodge, No. 123, A. F. & A. M.,
respectfully submit the following report :
We have with some care examined witnesses and other,
evidence and find the trial of N. M. Barrow was not regu-
larly proceeded with. We therefore recommend that the
proceedings of said Lodge in aforesaid matter be not con-
firmed and that the same shall be certified to Franklinton
Lodge to the end that a new trial be granted.
Fraternally submitted,
Samuel E. Gidney,
L. V. Morrill,
Sidney W. Minor,
A. L. Smoot,
Committee.
The Grand Officers were installed by Past Grand
Master R. J. Noble, Bro. S. L. Parks acting as Grand
Marshal.
ELECTED OFFICERS.
H. I. Clark Grand Master.
W. S. Liddell Deputy Grand Master.
F. D. Winston Senior Grand Warden.
S. M. GaTTIS Junior Grand Warden.
Wm. Simpson Grand Treasurer.
John C. Drewry Grand Secretary.
APPOINTED OFFICERS.
A. A. Marshall
B. W. Hatcher
T. J. Reed
R. N. HaCKETT
E. F. Lamb
F. M. Winchester
E. W. O’Hanlon
J. G. Snyder
W. B. McKoy
R. H. Bradley
.Grand Chaplain.
.Grand Lecturer.
.Senior Grand Deacon.
.Junior Grand Deacon.
.Grand Marshal.
.Grand Sword Bearer.
.Grand Pursuivant.
.Grand Steward.
.Grand Steward.
.Grand Tiler.
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
After the installation of the Grand Officers, one of the
most pleasant incidents during the session of the Grand
Lodge occurred. Bro. S. W. Minor, in the following lan-
guage, presented a Past Master’s jewel to retiring Grand
Master B. S. Royster, as a token of love and esteem from
the Masons of North Carolina for the faithful and earnest
manner in which he had served the Grand Lodge during
the past two years as its official head :
Most Worshipful Grand Master:
I am at a loss to understand why you have called upon
me this morning and assigned to me the pleasant duty of
delivering this, your testimony of love and esteem, when
there are so many other older and wiser heads here than
mine, and so many more eloquent tongues. Since standing
here many possible reasons have been suggested for it. It
has been the work of a moment to toss them aside as un-
worthy of consideration. One, and one only, seems worthy
to claim our attention and it is this. You, Sir, are well ac-
quainted with the retiring Grand Master, and therefore you
know well that we who know him best love him most ; and
the thought suggests itself that possibly you would like for
some member of his own lodge to tell the brethren of the
Grand Lodge and other lodges how he is regarded in his
own home, on his native heath. But the jewel which he
wears upon his breast, the gift of Oxford Lodge, No. 396,
speaks more eloquently of this, than could a thousand
tongues. And when I remember that he is now surrounded
by friends of many years standing; when I remember that
for the past two years he has been the honored head of our
Fraternity; that he has also recently lead the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows to greater success; and when I re-
member that he is now and has been for some time past,
the head of our State Militia, discharging his duties in each
and every instance with a zeal, fidelity and ability second to
none, and that his name is not unknown in North Carolina,
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this last reason, too, vanishes and I am left to doubt and
wonder. But the duty is assigned and I cheerfully accept it.
Brethren of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina, the
giving of gifts has been a beautiful custom from the time
when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. I
am glad it is so. I am glad that the code of ethics of nations
and societies, as well as that of individuals, permits, sustains
and upholds this beautiful custom. But there are various
kinds of gifts. Some are sought for the intrinsic value of
the prize itself. They are few in number. Others come as
a reward for meritorious service rendered, or in a spirit of
contest and friendly rivalry man with man. The pages of
sacred and profane history furnish us with countless instan-
ces of this kind. There are still others that come not only
as a reward for meritorious service, but like the one to be
given here this morning — they have a deeper and a far more
significant meaning.
My brother, “ on your head now rests the laurel leaves
of victory, on your breast hang jewels fit to grace the diadem
of an Eastern potentate ; nay, more than these, with light
added to light, your ambitious feet have trodden round after
round the ladder that leads to fame in our Mystic circle and
even the purple of our Fraternity has rested upon your hon-
ored shoulders.” In appreciation of what you have accom-
plished, of what you have stood for as the representative
head of the great Masonic Fraternity in North Carolina, in
appreciation of the faithful and meritorious service which
you have rendered, as the highest mark of esteem which it
is possible for your brethren to show; and in addition to
this, a feeling of the warmest personal regard, the officers
and members of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina tender
you this simple token. They ask you to take it and wear
it and prize it, not for its intrinsic worth, which is small, but
for the inexhaustible mine of good will and friendship which
prompts its presentation.
On its face appears your name, “B. S. Royster, P.G. M.,”
and the words “Grand Master.” Here, too, are most of the
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
1 13
symbols of our Fraternity, — the Square and Compass and
the All-seeing Eye, which pervades the innermost recesses
of the human heart and will reward us according to our
merit, and others with which I am not familiar.
On the reverse side I find the following inscription:
“ Presented to B. S. Royster, Grand Master, 1900-1901, by
the Grand Lodge of N. C., A. F. & A. M., at session held
in Raleigh, Jan., 1902.”
This, then, my brother, is the jewel that has been pre-
pared for you. It is yours to wear throughout an honorable
life, and at your death to be left an imperishable heirloom
— a priceless heritage to your family. “Let its pure and
spotless surface be to you an ever-present reminder of a
‘purity of life and rectitude of conduct, ’ a never-ending
argument for nobler deeds, for higher thoughts, for greater
achievements, and when at last your weary feet shall have
come to the end of their toilsome journey, and from your
nerveless grasp shall drop forever the working-tools of life,
may the record of your life and actions be as pure and spot-
less as the fair emblem which I place within your hands to-
day.” In these words you recognize a portion of the charge
upon the delivery of the lamb’s skin or white leathern apron,
which is an emblem of innocence and the distinguished badge
of a Mason. To me they seem fittingly appropriate on this
occasion. This too, my brother, is an emblem — an emblem
of love, and the distinguished badge of a Past Grand Master
of the Masonic Fraternity in North Carolina. Representing,
as I believe I do, the unanimous sentiments of our brethren
here and elsewhere, all over the State, I gladly tender it
to you with an earnest prayer that it may bring you peace
and happiness, and be to yott an ever-present reminder of
the love, confidence, and genuine esteem of your brethren.
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Past Grand Master B. S. Royster feelingly responded ■
in the following language :
Most Worshipful Grand Master and Brethren ;
There are tinies in the lives of all of us when our lips
are powerless to express the deep emotions of our hearts.
Such a time has come to me, and when I attempt to utter
words of appreciation I am completely overcome. When I
remember the distinguished honors I have received at your
hands ; when I recall the uniform kindness of all the breth-
ren during my incumbency of the high office of Grand
Master; and when I am now so forciby reminded of your
fraternal good will and affection, my heart is most deeply
touched and I would fain express to you my never-ending
gratitude and appreciation. This jewel is to me more than
I can tell you. It represents to me the crystallization of the
love of my brethren throughout the State. It is your earnest
of loving appreciation of my efforts, and it will continually
remind me of my obligations to this great Fraternity.
No preferment can come to me in the future of which
I shall be so proud as that of having served as Grand Master
of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina during the last year
of the Old Century and the first year of the New — two years
so full of good things for our beloved Order. I have labored
earnestly, and now, as I surrender the distinguished honor
to my successor, I receive this beautiful token which so elo-
quently says to me, “well done.” I could ask no more,
much less would have made me most happy. I need not
say to you that I shall prize it above measure and that
around it cluster the sweetest recollections and happiest
associations. It shall be my constant aim to wear it worthily
as a man and Mason and to hand it down to those who shall
bear my name in coming generations as a priceless inherit-
ance. This is one of the happiest moments of my life. It is
that “soft green of the soul upon which the eye delights
to rest.” When I shall have at last mounted the summit
of life ; when the foam of the wave of time shall have silver-
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
1 15
ed my brow ; when the sound of the last trump shall echo
in my ear and when “from my nerveless grasp the working
tools of life ” are about to drop forever, 1 shall look back
with the tenderest affection upon my official association
with the Grand Lodge. From my heart of hearts I thank
you.
The Grand Master announced the following commit-
tee as the Local Advisory Board for the Oxford Orphan
Asylum : W B. Ballou, W. L. Mitchell, F. P. Hobgood.
Standing committees for the ensuing year were an-
nounced as follows :
J urisprudence :
F. H. Busbee, J. C. Biggs, T. B. Womack, J. H. Fleming, S. W.
Minor, W. B. Gaither, S. J. Calvert, Paul Kitchen, A. B. Andrews, Jr.
Propositions and Grievances :
No. x — W. H. McLaurin, C. E. Blount, Richard Williams.
No. 2 — J. T. Alderman, U. L. Spence, T. T. McGilvary.
Foreign Correspondence:
John A. Collins, T. H. Calvert, A. L. Smoot.
Finance:
W. H. Bain, W. E. Faison, S. J Hinsdale.
Credentials :
W. E. Jones, J. E. Bundy, J. H. Mullins.
Orphan Asylum:
Samuel H. Smith, J. L. Currin, F. D. Jones, S. L. Parks, F. M.
Moye, Dr. John H. Hill, C. W. Morgan, C. W. Grice, J. H. Foote, Jr.
Special Committee on Charity :
John Nichols, G. N. Walters, B. R. Lacy.
Special Committee on Masonic Temple ;
Grand Master, ex-officio Chairman; Grand Secretary, S. M. Gattis,
John W. Cotten, J. S. Carr, John S. Cunningham, A. J. Harris, W. R.
Cox.
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Bro. M. C, S. Noble was appointed Grand Orator for
the next Annual Communication.
Bro. Robert H. Bradley was re-appointed Grand
Librarian.
The Grand Lodge having concluded its business, the
proceedings of the morning session were read and ap-
proved.
The Grand Lodge was closed in ample form.
Prayer by the Grand Chaplain.
A ttcst
B. S. ROYSTER,
Grand Master.
John C. Drewry,
Grand Secretary.
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
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LODGES
Under the .Jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Nouth
Carolina.
NAME.
NO.
St. John’s -
I
Royal White Hart
2
St. John’s
3
Charity
5
Unanimity
7
Phcenix
8
American George
17
Phalanx
3i
Stokes
32
Davie
39
Hiram
40
Liberty.
45
Hall
53
King Solomon
56
Concord
58
Kilwinning
64
Eagle
71
Golden Fleece
74
Widow’s Son
75
Greensboro
7b
Zion
81
LaFayette
83
Fellowship -
84
Morning .Star
85
Skewarkey
90
Western Star
91
Joseph Warren
92
Jerusalem
95
St. John’s
96
Neuse
Q7
Hiram
08
Fulton
QQ
Warren
IOI
Columbus
102
Orr
T04
Perquimans
106
Belmont
108
Franklin
IOQ
Wayne
1 1 2
Person
III
St. Albans
114
Holly Springs
115
Mount Lebanon
117
Mount Hermon
118
Logan
I 21
Franklinton
123
POST-OFFICE.
COUNTY.
Wilmington
New Hanover..
Halifax
Halifax
Newbern
Craven
Windsor
Bertie
Edenton
Chowan
Fayetteville
Cumberland
Murfreesboro
Hertford
Charlotte
Mecklenburg....
Concord
Cabarrus
Roxobel
Bertie
Raleigh
Wake
Wilkesboro
Wilkes
Indian Town
Currituck
Jackson
N orthampton....
Tarboro
Edgecombe
Wadesboro
Anson
Hillsboro
Orange
Milton .. .
Caswell
Camden Court House
Camden
Greensboro
Guilford
Trenton
Jones
Jacksonville
Onslow
Smithfield
, ohnston
Nashville
Nash
Williamston
Martin
Rutherfordton
Rutherford
Moyton
Wilson
Hookerton
Greene
Kinston
Lenoir
Neuse
Wake
Clinton
Sampson
Salisbury
Rowan
Kenansville
Duplin
Pittsboro
Chatham
Washington
Beaufort
Hertford
Perquimans
Faison
Duplin
Beaufort
Carteret
Goldsboro
Wayne
R ox boro
Person .
Luinberton
Robeson
Holly Springs
Wake
Wilson
Wilson
Asheville
Buncombe
Jamestown
Guilford
Franklinton
Franklin
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NAME.
POST-OFFICE.
COUNTY.
Mill Creek
Gatesville
Blackmer
Hanks
Dan River
Radiance
iVIocksville
Leaksville
Lincoln
King Solomon
Mount Energy
Carolina
Mount Vernon
Junaluska
Cherokee
Palmyra
Adoniram
Chalmers
White Stone
Rolesville
Mount Pleasant
Knap of Reeds
Yadkin
Deep River
Archer
Winston
Blackmer
Buffalo
George Washington
Polloksville
Siloam
Carthage
Sandy Creek.
Pine Forest
Central Cross
Balfour
Fair Bluff
Granite
Burnsville
Mount Olivet
Cary
Cleveland
Roanoke
Berea
Long Creek
Mingo
Lebanon
Randleman
Thomasville
Catawba Valley .
William G. Hill
Wilson
Jonesville
125
Newton Grove
126
Gatesville
127
Mt. Gilead
128
Franklinsville
129
Madison
132
Snow Hill
r34
Mocksville
136
Leaksville
137
Lincolnton
138
Burgaw
140
Mount Energy
141
Ansonville
M3
Ore Hill
145
Franklin
146
Murphy
147
Dunn
149
Adoniram
151
Tempting
155
Wakefield
156
Rolesville
157
Rogers’ Store
•58
Knap of Reeds
162
Yadkinville
164
Coleridge
165
Archer Lodge
167
Winston
170
Weayerville
172
fonesboro
174
Elm Grove
175
Polloksville
178
Harrell’s Store
181
Carthage
185
Laurel
186
Leaflet
187
Spring Hope
188
Ashboro
I 90
Fair Bluff
191
Clayton
192
Burnsville
iQ5
Erect
198
Cary
202
Shelby
203
Weldon
204
Berea
205
Bristow
206
Bass
207
Whiteville
209
Randleman
214
Thomasville
217
M.organton .
218
Raleigh
226
Olin
227 1
Jonesville
Sampson
Gates
Montgomery ....
Randolph
Rockingham .
Greene
Davie
Rockingham ....
Lincoln
Pender
Granville
Anson
Chatham
Macon
Cherokee
Harnett
Granville
Moore
Wake
Wake
Wake
Granville
Yadkin
Randolph
Johnston
Forsyth
Buncombe
Moore
Chatham
Jones
Sampson
Moore
P'ranklin
Harnett..
Nash
Randolph
Columbus
Johnston
Yancey
Randolph
Wake
Cleveland
Halifax
Granville
Mecklenburg....
Sampson
Columbus
Randolph
Davidson
Burke
Wake
Iredell ....
Yadkin
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
119
NAME.
McCormick
Henderson
Corinthian
William T. Bain .
Gunter
Lenoir
Cokesbury
Mystic Tie..
Atlantic
Rountree
Monroe
Catawba
Pythagoras
Rockford
Lily Valley
Lee
Oaks
Kenly
Harnett
Waynesville
Excelsior
Hibriten
Gaston
Farmington
Durbin
Dunn’s Rock
Unaka
East Bend
Tobasco
Bingham
Watauga
Beaver Dam
Green Level
Rehoboth
Eureka
Greenville
Flat Creek
Cedar Rock
Salem
French Broad
Vance
Atlantic
Stonewall
Toisnot
Hunting Creek.
Pamlico
Clay
Lillington
Evergreen
Pleasant Hill
Laurinburg
Galatia
Patterson
NO.
POST-OFFICE.
COUNTY.
228
Broadway
Moore.
229
Henderson
Vance
2 3°
Rocky Mount
Nash
23i
Kader
Wake
232
Haywood
Chatham
233
LaGrange
Lenoir
235
May
Harnett
237
Marion
McDowell
238
Moyock (
Currituck
243
Griffon (Pitt) 1
Lenoir
244 !
Monroe
Union
248 |
Newton
Catawba
249
Southport...
Brunswick
251
Rockford
Surry
252
Sunbury
Gates
253
Taylorsville
Alexander
255
Oaks
Orange
257
Kenly
J ohnston ....
258
Bradley’s Store
Harnett
259
Wavnesville
Haywood
26l
Charlotte
Mecklenburg....
262
Lenoir
Caldwell
263
Dallas
Gaston
265
Farmington
Davie
266
Autrvville.
Sampson
267
Brevard
Transylvania....
268
Webster
Jackson
260
East Bend
Yadkin
271
Gibsonville
Guilford
272
Haw River
Alamance
273
Boone
Watauga
276
Marsh ville
U nion
277
Ewing
Wake
279
Teachevs
Duplin
283
Concord
Rowan
284
Greenville
Pitt
285
Prosperity
Chatham
286
Cedar Rock
Franklin
289
i Salem
Forsyth
202
Marshall
Madison
293
Democrat
Buncombe
294
j Swan Ouarter
Hyde
296
Robersonville
Martin
298
Elm City
Wilson
299
Eagle Mills
1 Iredell
300
Aurora
Beaufort
301
Hayesville
Clay
302
Lillington
Harnett
303
Spout Springs...,
Harnett
304
Repose
Lenoir
305
Laurinburg
| Richmond
306
Raeford
Cumberland ...
307
Mount Pleasant
Cabarrus
120
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
NAME.
Randolph
Hatcher
Notla
King Solomon.
New Lebanon....
Kinston
Eureka
Wilmington
Selma
White Hill
Granite...!
Wentworth
Falling Creek....
Winton
Mattamuskeet ..
Black Creek
Bayboro
Ashepole
Ionic
Fair View
Harmony
Rock Spring
Hickory
Numa F. Reed..
Stanly
Durham
Moravian
Dellaplaue
Fallston
Bakersville
East La Porte....
Mount Vernon..
Mayon
Snow
Craighead
Gastonia
Mars Hill
Bethel
Elk :
State Line
Youngsville
Seaboard
Coharie
Granville
Forest City
Shawnee
Reidsville
Scottsville
Pigeon River ....
Kedron
Mooresboro
Temperance
Copeland
NO.
POST-OFFICE.
309
Troy
31°
Boyett
312
Culberson
313
Lumber Bridge
3 >4
South Mills
3I6
Kinston
317
Elizabeth City
319
Wilmington
320
Selma
321
Greenwood
322
Mount Airy
324
Wentworth
X2 S
Grantham
327
Winton
328
Lake Landing
330
Black Creek
331
Bayboro
335
Rowland
337
Kittrell
339
King’s Mountain
340
Pikeville
341
Triangle
343
Hickory
344
High Point
348
Albemarle
352
Durham
353
Moravian Falls
355
Dellaplane
356
Fallston
357
Bakersville
358
Tuckaseigee
Oriental
360
Ammon
363
Sugar Grove
366
Huntersville
369
Gastonia 0
170
Mars Hill
372
Morven
373
Todd
375
Grover
377
Youngsville
378
Margarettsville
379
Owenville
380
Grissom
381
Forest City...'.
382
Monbo
384
Reidsville
385
Furches
3«6
Canton
387
Hendersonville
388
Ellenboro
389
Coxville
3QO
Copeland 1
COUNTY.
Montgomery ....
Wilson
Cherokee
Robeson
Camden
Lenoir
Pasquotank
New Hanover ..
Johnston
Moore
Surry
Rockingham ....
Wayne
Hertford
Hyde
Wilson
Pamlico
Robeson
Vance
Cleveland
Wayne
Lincoln
Catawba
Guilford
Stanly
Durham
Wilkes
Wilkes
Cleveland
Mitchell
Jackson
Pamlico
Bladen
Watauga
Mecklenburg....
Gaston
Madison
Anson
Watauga
Cleveland
Franklin
Northampton ..
Sampson
Granville
Rutherford
Catawba
Rockingham ....
Ashe
Haywood
Henderson
Cleveland
Pitt
Surry
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
121
NAME.
COUNTY.
Lebanon
White Rock
Tally Ho
Cape Fear
Orient
Oxford
Bald Creek
Centre
Conoho
Joppa
Dobson
Siler City
Farmers
Ocean
Ivy
Liberty Grove ..
LTniversity
Bula
Rockville
H. F. Grainger.
Louisburg
New Hope
Bellview
Maxton
Potecasi
Greenwood
Harmon
Boonville
Sparta
Baltimore.
Eastern Star
Montgomery
Oconee
Stokesdale
Sea Side
Rockyford
Relief
King’s Creek .....
Vanceboro
West Bend
Blue Ridge
Star
Marble Spring ..
Clingman
Pleasant Mount.
Waxhaw
Roper
Marietta
Biltmore
Enfield
Ingold
Lone Oak
Polenta
iQl
Hope Mills
Cumberland
392
White Rock
Madison
393
Stem
Granville
394
Little River Academy
Cumberland
395
Wilmington
New Hanover ..
iq6
Oxford
Granville
397
Bald Creek
Yancey
398
Jupiter
Buncombe
399
Hamilton
Martin
401
Old Fort
McDowell
402
Dobson
Surry
403
Siler City
Chatham
404
Farmers
Randolph . .
405
Morehead City
Carteret
406
Paint Fork
Madison
407
North Wilkesboro
Wilkes
408
Chapel Hill
Orange
409
Burlington
Alamance
411
Stanhope
Nash
412
Dabney
Vance
413
Louisburg
Franklin
415
Purlear
Wilkes
416
Cobbs
Cherokee
417
Maxton
Robeson
418
Potecasi
Northampton ..
419
Godwin
Cumberland
420
Cross Roads Church..
Yadkin
421
Boonville
Yadkin
423
Sparta
Alleghany
424
Tracadia
Yadkin
425
Day Book
Yancey
426
Letitia
Cherokee
427
Bryson City
Swain
428
Stokesdale
Guilford
429
Swansboro
Onslow
430
Kapp’s Mill
Surry
43i
Benson
Johnston
432
Piney Creek..
Alleghany .
433
Vanceboro
Craven
434
Panther Creek
Yadkin
435
Highlands
Macon
437
Star
Montgomery ....
439
Marble
Cherokee
440
Clingman
Wilkes
441
Absher
Wilkes
442
W axhaw
Union
443
Roper
Washington.
444
Ramseur
Randolph
446
Biltmore
Buncombe
447
Enfield
Halifax
448
Ingold
Sampson
449
Robbinsville
| Graham..'.
450
Leachburg
Johnston
16
122
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
NAME.
NO.
POST-OFFICE.
COUNTY.
Ashler
451
452
453
454
455
456
457
459
460
461
462
463
464
465
466
467
Summit
Watauga
Grifton
Pitt ....“
Clyde
Clyde
Haywood
Elkin
Elkin
Surry
Pineville
Pineville ...
Mecklenburg....
Surry
Rusk
Rusk
Grapevine
Grapevine
Madison
Dillsboro
Dillsboro
Jackson
Henrietta
Henrietta
Rutherford
Matthews
Matthews
Mecklenburg....
Gaston
South Fork
McAdensville
Currituck
Coinjock
Currituck
Boiling Springs .
Boiling Springs
Cleveland
Gulf *
Gulf
Chatham
King FI i ram
Edonia
Cumberland
Healing Springs
Crumpler
Ashe
Millingport
468
469
470
471
472
473
Millingport . ..
Stanly
Sanford
Sanford
Moore
Scotland Neck
Scotland Neck
Halifax
Grassy Knob
Osbornville
Iredell
Sonotna
Sonoma
Haywood
Lexington
Lexington
Davidson
St. Paul’s
474
St. Paul’s
Robeson
Grimesland
475
476
Grimesland
Pitt
Big Lick
Big Lick
Stanly
Eagle Springs
477
478
479
480
481
482
Eagle Springs
Moore
Four Oaks
Four Oaks
Johnston
Rainbow
Arapahoe
Pamlico
Mill Creek
Harpers
Johnston
Spring Hope
Spring Hope
Nash
Saluda
Saluda
Polk
Trap Hill
483
484
Trap Hill
Wilkes
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Moore
Brasstown
485
Brasstown
Clay
Lawndale
486
487
488
Lawndale
Cleveland
Statesville
Statesville
Iredell . .
Rich Square
Rich Square ...
Northampton ..
Mitchell
Linville
489
49°
491
49 2
493
494
495
496
497
498
499
500
501
502
503
504
Montezuma
Bueeaboo.
Dimette
Wilkes
Hominy
Candler ....
Buncombe
Thomas M. Holt
Graham ....
Alamance
Pilot
Pilot Mountain
John A. Graves
Yanceyville ..
Caswell
Rockingham
Rockingham
Richmond
Mooresvile
Mooresville
Iredell
Royal Hart
Littleton
Halifax
Ayden
Ayden
Pitt
Creedmoor
Creedmoor
Granville
Raleigh
Raleigh
Wake
Red Springs
Red Springs .
Robeson
Cookville
Henry ....
Catawba
Buies Creek
Poes
Harnett
Luke McGlaughan
Ahoskie
Hertford
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
123
NAME.
Cherryville ....
TJnaka
Roberdell
Lattimore
Belhaven
Caroleen
Barnardsville .
Lone Hickory
Sylva
Scotland
Whetstone
Aulander
Farmville
NO.
POST-OFFICE.
COUNTY.
505
Cherryville
Gaston
506
Unaka
Cherokee
507
Roberdell
Richmond
508
Lattimore
Cleveland
509
Belhaven
Beaufort
510
Caroleen
Rutherford
511
Barnardsville
Buncombe
512
Footville
Yadkin
513
Sylva
Tackson
514
Gibson...
Scotland
515
Bessemer City
Gaston
5 z6
Aulander
Bertie
517
Farmville
Pitt
124
PROCEEDINGS OB' THE
S T A T E M E N T
OS' LODGES GIVEN ACCORDING TO COUNTIES.
NAMES OF DODGES.
NO.
ARAMANCE.
Thomas M. Holt
Bingham
Bula
ALEXANDER.
Lee
ALLEGHANY.
King’s Creek
Sparta
ANSON.
Bethel
Carolina
Kilwinning
ASHE.
Scottsville
Healing Springs
BEAUFORT.
Orr
Pamlico
Belhaven
BERTIE.
Charity
Davie
Aulander
BLADEN.
Mayon
BRUNSWICK.
Pythagoras
BUNCOMBE.
Biltmore ....
Blackmer
Centre
Mount Hermon
Vance
Hominy
Barnardsville
BURKE.
Catawba Valley
CABARRUS.
Patterson
Stokes
49 2
272
409
253
432
423
372 I
141
64
104
3°°
509
5
39
516
360
249
446 ;
170
398
118
293
491
217
307
32
CALDWELL.
Hibriten
CAMDEN.
New Lebanon
Widow’s Son
CARTERET.
Franklin
Ocean
CASWELL.
John A. Graves
Golden Fleece
CATAWBA.
Catawba
Cookville
Hickory
Shawnee
CHATHAM.
Columbus
Flat Creek
George Washington
Gunter
Mount Vernon
Siler City
Gulf
CHEROKEE.
Bellview ..
Cherokee
Marble Spring
Montgomery
Notla
Unaka
CHOWAN.
Unanimity
clay.
Brasstown
Clay
CLEVELAND.
Cleveland
Double Shoals
Fairview
Lawndale
Mooresboro
262
314
75
109
405
494
74
248
502
343
382
102
285
174
232
143
403
465
416
146
439
426
312
506
7
485
301
202
356
339
486
388
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
125
NAMES OF LODGES.
NO.
Cleveland — Continued.
NAMES OF LODGES.
GASTON.
State Line
Boiling Springs
Lattimore.
COLUMBUS.
Fair Bluff
Lebanon
CUMBERLAND.
Cape Fear
Durbin
Galatia
Greenwood
Lebanon
Phoenix
King Hiram
CURRITUCK.
Atlantic .
Hall
Currituck
CRAVEN.
St. John’s
Vanceboro
DAVIDSON
Lexington
Thomasville
DAVIE.
Farmington
Mocksville
DUPLIN.
Rehoboth
Warren
Belmont
DURHAM.
Durham
EDGECOMBE.
Concord
Rising Sun
FORSYTH.
Salem
Winston
FRANKLIN.
375
464
508
190
207
394
266
306
419
39i
8
466
238
53
463
3
433
473
214
265
134
279
101
108
352
58
438
289
167
J Air Line
Cherry ville
Gaston
South Fork
Whetstone
GATES. '
| Gates ville
Lily Valley
GRAHAM.
Lone Oak
GRANVILLE.
Adoniram
j Berea
j Creedmoor _
| Granville
Knap of Reeds
Mount Energy
Oxford
I Tally Ho
GREENE.
| Jerusalem
I Radiance
GUILFORD.
Numa F. Reid
Greensboro
Logan
Stokesdale
Tobasco
HALIFAX.
Enfield
Roanoke
Royal White Hart ...
Royal Hart
Scotland Neck
HARNETT.
Buies Creek
Cokesbury
Evergreen
Harnett
Lillington
Palmyra
Pine Forest
Cedar Rock .
Franklinton..
Louisburg
Sandy Creek
Youngsville .
286
123
413
185
377
HAYWOOD.
Clyde
Pigeon River
Sonoma
Waynesville
NO.
369
505
263
462
515
126
252
449
149
204
499
380
15S
140
396
393
95
132
344
76
121
428
271
447
203
2
497
470
503
235
303
258
302
147
186
453
386
472
259
126
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
NAMES OF LODGES.
HENDERSON.
Kedron
HERTFORD.
American George
Luke McGlaughan ...
Winton
HYDE.
Atlantic
Mattamuskeet
IREDELL.
Mooresville
Grassy Knob
Hunting Creek
Statesville
Wilson
JACKSON.
Hillsboro
Unaka
East La Porte
Sylva
JOHNSTON.
Four Oaks
Archer
Kenly
Fellowship
Granite
Polenta
Relief
Selma
Mill Creek
JONES.
Polloksville
Zion
' LENOIR.
Kinston
Lenoir
Pleasant Hill
Rountree
St. John’s
LINCOLN.
Lincoln
Rock Spring
MACON.
Blue Ridge
Junaluska
NO.
NAMES OF LODGES.
387
MADISON.
French Broad
Grapevine
Ivy
17
504
327
Mars Hill
White Rock
MARTIN.
Conoho
294
328
Skewarkey
Stonewall
M’DOWEIvD.
Joppa
496
Mystic Tie
471
299
487
226
MECKLENBURG.
Long Creek
Craighead
Excelsior
Phalanx
459
268
358
513
Pineville
Matthews
MITCHELL-
Linville
Bakersville
478
165 I
MONTGOMERY.
Randolph
257
Star
84
Blaclcmer
191
450
43i
320
480
MOORE.
Aberdeen
Carthage
Eagle Springs
Chalmers
White Hill
175
81
McCormick
Sanford
Buffalo
316
233
304
243
34i
NASH.
Central Cross
Corinthian
Morning Star
Rockville
Spring Hope
137
34i
NEW HANOVER.
Orient
435
145
St. John’s
Wilmington j
NO.
292
457
406
37o
392
399
90
296
401
237
205
366
261
31
455
461
489
357
309
437
127
484
181
477
151
321
228
469
172
187
230
85
411
481
395
1
3i9
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
127
NAMES OF LODGES.
NORTHAMPTON.
King Solomon
Potecasi
Seaboard
Rich Square
ONSLOW.
LaFayette
Sea Side
ORANGE.
Eagle
Oaks
University
PAMLICO.
Bayboro
Mount Vernon
Rainbow
PASQUOTANK.
Eureka
PENDER.
King Solomon
PERSON.
Person
PERQUIMANS.
Perquimans
PITT.
Grimesland
Greenville
Ayden
Grifton
Temperance
Farmville
polk.
Saluda
RANDOLPH.
Randleinan
Balfour
Deep River
Farmers
Hanks
Marietta
Mount Olivet
RICHMOND.
Rockingham
Daurinburg
Roberdell
NO.
NAMES OF LODGES.
56
418
378
488
ROBESON.
St. Paul’s
King Solomon
Maxton
St. Albans
Ashepole
Red Springs
83
429
ROCKINGHAM.
Dan River
Leaksville
71
Reidsville
255
Wentworth
408
331
ROWAN
Eureka
Fulton
359
479
RUTHERFORD.
Forest City
3*7
Henrietta
Western Star
Caroleen
138
SAMPSON.
Coharie
113
Hiram
Ingold
Mill Creek
106
Mingo
Siloam
475
284
498
452
389
517
SCOTLAND.
Scotland
STANLY.
Big Lick
Stanly
j Millingport
482
SURRY.
Pilot
209
188
164
Copeland
I Dobson
1 Elkin
Granite
4°4
128
444
Rockford
Rockyford
Rusk
J95
SWAIN.
Oconee
495
305
507
TRANSYLVANIA.
Dunn’s Rock
NO.
474
3i 3
417
114
335
501
I2g
136
384
324
283
99
38x
460
9i
5io
379
98
448
125
206
178
514
476
348
468
493
39°
402
454
322
25t
430
456
427
267
128
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
NAMES OF DODGES. j NO
NAMES OF DODGES.
UNION.
Beaver Dam
Monroe
Waxhaw
VANCE.
Henderson
Henry F. Grainger
Ionic
WAKE.
Green Level
Hiram
Holly Springs
Mount Pleasant
Neuse
Rolesville
William G. Hill
William T. Bain
White Stone
Cary
Raleigh
WASHINGTON.
Roper
WATAUGA.
Ashler
Elk
Snow
Watauga
WAYNE.
Falling Creek
Harmony
276
244
442
229
412
337
277
40
115
157
97
156
218
231
155
198
500
443
45i
373
363
273
325
340
wayne — Contiimed.
Wayne
widkes.
Buggaboo
Clingman
Dellaplane
Liberty
Liberty Grove
Moravian
New Hope
Pleasant Mount
Trap Hill
WIDSON.
Black Creek
Hatcher :
Joseph Warren
Mount Lebanon
Toisnot
YADKIN.
Baltimore
Boonville
East Bend
Harmon
Jonesville ...
West Bend
Yadkin
Lone Hickory
YANCEY.
Bald Creek
Burnsville
Eastern Star
NO.
112
490
440
335
45
407
353
4i5
441
483
330
3!o
92
117
298
424
421
269
420
227
434
162
512
397
195
422
List of Foreign Grand Lodges, With Names and Addresses of Grand Secretaries.
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
129
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Grand Lodges— Month of Meetings — Addresses of Grand Secretaries.
GRAND LODGES.
MEETS.
Alabama .
Arizona
Arkansas
British Columbia ..
California
Canada
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware .
District Columbia..
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Indian Territory.-..
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Manitoba
Massachusetts
Maryland
Michigan...
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Brunswick ....
New Hampshire...
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Dakota
Nova Scotia
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Prince Ed. Island..
Quebec
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee.
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
December
November..!
November..
June
October
J uly
September
January
October
December.
January
October
September
October
May
August i
June I
February....j
October |
February....!
May j
June
December..
November..!
January
January
February...
October
September
June
June j
April
May j
January I
October j
June
June
June
October
February...
June
December .
June
January
May
December ..
June
January
December ..
January
June
December..
November;.
June
December..
GRAND SECRETARIES.
George A. Beauchamp
George J. Roskruge....
Fay Hemstead
W. J. Quinlan
George Johnson
J. J. Mason
Wm. D. Todd
John H. Barlow
B. F. Bartram
A. W. Johnston
Wilbor P. Webster
W. A. Wollihin
Theo W. Randall
J. H. C. Dill
William H. Smythe. ..
J. S. Murrow.
Theo. S. Parin
Albert K. Wilson
H. B. Grant
Richard Lambert
Stephen Berry
William G. Scott
Sereno D. Nickerson ..
Jacob H. Medairy
Jefferson S. Conover..
Thomas Montgomerj1
J. L. Power
John D. Vincil
Cornelius Hedges
William R. Bowen .....
C. N. Noteware
J. T. Hart
George P. Cleaves
T. H. R. Redway
A. A. Keen
E. M. L. Ehlers
Frank J. Thompson ...j
W. Ross J
J. H. Bromwell !
j. S. Hunt
James F. Robinson j
W. A. Sinn I
Neil Mackelvie j
John H. Isaacson.. j
Edwin Baker
Charles Inglesby j
George A. PettigTew .j
John P. Garrett i
John Watson
Christopher Diehl J
Warren J. Reynolds. ...j
Geo. W. Carrington. ..J
George W. Atkinson ..j
John W. LafHin !
W. L. Kuekendall I
ADDRESSES.
Montgomery..
Tucson
Little Rock..
Victoria
San Francisco
Hamilton, Ont
Denver
Hartford
Wilmington...
Washington. ...
Jacksonville.. -
Macon
Boise City
Bloomington .
Indianapolis ..
Atoka
Cedar Rapids
Topeka
Louisville
New Orleans..
Portland
Winnipeg
Boston.
Baltimore
Cold water
St. Paul
Jackson..
St Louis
Helena
Omaha
Carson
St.John
Concord
Trenton
Albuquerque..
New York
Fargo
Halifax
Cincinnati
Stillwater..
Eugene.
Philadelphia ..
Sutnmerside ..
Montreal
Providence
Charleston
Flandreau
Nashville
Houston
Salt Lake City
Burlington
Richmond
Charleston
Milwaukee
Saratoga
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OF OTHER GRAND LODGES NEAR THE GRAND LODGE Of NORTH GAROLINA.
GRAND LODGE.
Arkansas
British Columbia
Canada
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia.
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Indian Territory
Kansas
Louisiana
Maine
Manitoba
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
New Brunswick
New Hampshire..
New Jersey
New York
New Zealand
North Dakota
Nova Scotia
Oregon
Ohio «.
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Sweden
Tennessee
Victoria
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
NAME.
RESIDENCE.
Fabius H. Busbee
H. I. Clark
S. M. Beasley
John C. Drewry
William A. Blair
William L London ...
W. A. Withers
Charles H. Robinson
Logan M. Totten
H. J. Lovick
Walter Clark
Hezekiah A. Gudger.
Thomas S. Kenan
M. C. S. Noble
David Bell
Samuel H. Smith
Thomas J . Reed
Robert Bingham
F. D. Winston
Enoch F. Lamb
W. E. Moore
Will X. Coley
I. Frank Tilson
Dr. J. G. Hunt
John C. Chase
W. H. Bain
N. B. Broughton
Rev. Thomas Bell ....
William Richardson
Thomas S. Kenan
John W. Cotten
Albert M. Noble
William R. Cox
H. W. Reinhart
W. T. Caho
A. B. Andrews, Jr
W. W. WTllson
J. L- Currin
Irskine Pope
Samuel Northorp
Dr. F. M. Moye
B. S. Royster
Richard J. Noble
Raleigh
Scotland Neck
Poplar Branch.
Raleigh
Winston
Pittsboro
Raleigh
\\ ilmington .....
Hickory
Newbern
Raleigh
Asheville.....
Raleigh
Wilmington
Enfield
Winston
Biltmore
Asheville
Windsor
Elizabeth City.
Webster
Henderson
Grapevine
Oxford
Wilmington .....
Raleigh
Raleigh
Greensboro
Selma
Raleigh
Tarboro
Selma
Raleigh
Thomasville
Newbern
Raleigh
Raleigh
Henderson
Red Springs
Wilmington
Wilson
Oxford
Selma
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
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REPRESENTATIVES
or TUB GRAND LODGE OF NORTH GAROLINA NEAR OTHER GRAND BODIES.
GRAND LODGE.
NAME.
RESIDENCE.
Arkansas
J. B. Baker
Melbourne
British Columbia
James Stone
Bakersville
Canada
John Hoodless
Hamilton, Ontario. .
Oakland
California
Hiram N. Rucker
Colorado
Joseph W. Milson
Canon City
Connecticut
Augustus C. Golding
Norwalk
Delaware
Dr. Frank Belville. -.
Delaware Citv
District of Columbia
Florida
Jesse W. Lee, Jr
Jesse J. Combs
Washington City ....
Apopka ..
Georgia
W. A. Wolihin
Macon
Idaho
F. G. Mock
Mountain Home
Illinois
Edward C. Pace
Ashley
Indiana
Elisha F McLal en
Columbia City
Indian Territory..
Moze W. LaFayette
Muskogee...
Kansas
Alex. A. Sharp
Earned
Louisiana
Samuel M. Todd
New Orleans
Maine
W. R. G. Estes
Skowhegan
Manitoba
William Crawford
Medicine Hat
Maryland
Samuel Eccles, Jr
Baltimore ....
Michigan
John W. Rowson
Grand Rapids
Minnesota .
B. B. Sprague
St. Paul..
Mississippi
Rev A. H. Barkley
Crawfordsville ....
Missouri
A. Fisher
La Belle
Nebraska.....
Melville R. Hopewell. ..
Tokenah
Nevada
Joseph F. Triplett
New Brunswick
P M. Archibald Bauer..
St. Tohn
New Hampshire
John McLane
Milford
New Jersey
George C. Warren
Trenton.....
New York
William H. Kennedy ....
Baldwins, L. I
New Zealand
C. J. W. Griffiths
Auckland
North Dakota
Janies McDonald
Grafton
Nova Scotia
Rev. H. D. Deblois
Annapolis
Ohio
Stith M. Sullivan
Dayton
Oregon ....
W. T. Williamson
Salem
Pennsylvania
Michael Nisbet
Philadelphia
Prince Edward Island ....
Robert E- Sobey
Summerside
Rhode Island ,
John P. Sanborn
Newport
South Carolina
J. T. Barron
Columbia ..
South Dakota
W. H. Boals.
Clark
Sweden
Justus C. Osterman
Stockholm
Tennessee
A. C. Robeson
Athens
Texas
W. S. Fly
San Antonio..
Vermont
Thomas L. Snow
St. Johnsbury
Virginia
Alfred R. Courtney
Richmond [Br’ht’n
Middle Crescent
Victoria....
Andrew Thomson
Wisconsin .
E. J. Farr
Eau Claire . .
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NAME OF EODGE.
Hominy
Thomas M. Holt
Pilot i
John A. Graves
Rockingham
Moores ville
Royal Hart
Avden
Creedmoor
Raleigh
Red Springs
Cookville
Buies Creek
Ruke McGlaughan....
Cherrvville
Unaka
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145
The following lodges have not sent in their returns for
the year 1901, viz: Golden Fleece, No. 74; Dan River, No.
129; Logan, No. 121; Buffalo, No. 172; Balfour, No. 188;
Gunter, No. 232; East Bend, No. 269; Pamlico, No. 300;
Randolph, No. 309; Bakersville, No. 357; Elk, No. 373;
Coharie, No. 379; Forest City, No. 381; Harrison, No. 420;
Sparta, No. 423; Montgomery, No. 426; Trap Hill, No. 483;
and Linville, No. 489.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Special ‘ Communication ,
Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted
Vw Masons of North Carolina convened in Special Com-
munication at Masonic Hall, in the town of Oxford, Sat-
urday morning, at 10:45 o’clock, June 22, a. d. 1901, and
was opened in ample form, it appearing that a constitu-
tional number of lodges were represented.
Prayer by the Grand Chaplain.
Grand Officers present:
M.-.W.-.B. S. Royster
R.-.W.-. H. E- Thompson..
“ John Nichols
“ F. W. Hilliard ..
“ L. C. Taylor
“ John C. Drewry
W. Thomas Bell
“ B. B. Howard
“ M. Blaylock
“ P. Bullock
“ R. H. Marsh
“ I. T. Hunt
“ j. R. Walters .. ..
“ W. A. Hester .. ..
“ J. J. Medford
R. H. Bradley
Grand Master.
.as Deputy Grand Master,
.as Senior Grand Warden,
.as Junior Grand Warden,
as Grand Treasurer.
Grand Secretary.
Grand Chaplain.
..as Grand Lecturer.
..as Senior Grand Deacon.
..as Junior Grand Deacon.
..as Grand Marshal.
..as Grand Sword Bearer.
..as Grand Pursuivant,
as Grand Steward.
..as Grand Steward.
Grand Tiler.
Past Grand Officer present : John Nichols, P. G. M-
The following lodges were represented: Hiram, No.
40; Oxford, No. 396; Wm, G. Hill, No. 218; Joseph War-
ren, No. 92; Franklinton, No. 123; Berea, No. 204; Tally
Ho, No. 393; Ionic, No. 337; Creedmoor, No. 499; Henry
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
147
F. Grainger, No. 412; Knap of Reeds, No. 158; Person, No.
1 13; Mt. Lebanon, No. 117.
The Most Worshipful Grand Master informed the
Grand Lodge that the Special Communication was called,
as usual, for the purpose of celebrating St. John’s Day at
the Oxford Orphan Asylum. The procession was formed
under the direction of the Grand Marshal and the Grand
Lodge proceeded in a body to the chapel of the Asylum,
and listened with interest and profit to the skillful rendi-
tion of the following program :
HYMN 1
“ Onward, Christian Soldiers,” by the children.
Prayer by Grand Chaplain.
HYMN :
“Let Us Crown Hitn,” by the children.
Address of Welcome — P. P. Hobgood, Jr.
Response — John Nichols.
song:
“America,” by the children.
Introduction of speaker.
Address by Dr. George T. Winston.
songs :
“Old North State” and “Dixie.”
The Grand Lodge then returned to the Hall.
The following resolution was then introduced by Bro.
John C. Drewry, which, on motion, was unanimously
adopted :
Resolved , That the thanks of this Grand Lodge be ex-
tended to Dr. George W. Winston, for his able address.
There being no further business, the Grand Lodge was
closed in ample form.
B. S. ROYSTER,
Grand Master.
John C. Drewry,
Grand Secretary.
148
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Return# from Subordinate Hodqe#.
(published by order of the grand lodge.)
The post-offices of Lodges are given on foregoing
pages. The place mentioned at the head of each of the
following returns is the locality of the Lodge, which is, in
some instances, remote from the post-office.
This information was taken from the returns of 1901.
ST. JOHN’S LODGE, No. 1— Wilmington.
Regular Communications second Tuesday evening in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. E- Matthews, M.
R. W. Price, S. D.
E. S. Martin, S. W.
J. W. Stormfelz, J. D.
Wm. E. Springer, J.
W.
Henry Burkhimer, S.
B. H. Scott, Treas.
E. D. Sloan, Sec.
T. H. Johnson, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — A. Carpenter, O.
Maunder.
MEMBERS.
M. Fillyaw, J. Frank
Brady, R. H.
Fechtig, F. H.
Harriss, W. W.
Bryant, L. H.
Frank, John
Hall, C. E.
Byrely, C. O.
Goodman, Wm.
Jones, R. J.
Burkhimer, Henry
Garrett, M. G.
Johnson, T. H.
Carpenter, A.
Gary, Paul
Lord, James
Coney, W. L.
Graham, F. L.
Munroe, J. W.
David, A.
Gregerson, Wm.
McRae, W. G.
Davis, John H.
Gore, John H.
Mayer, N.
Evans, W. G.
Hewlett, E.
Murrell, Z. E.
Eron, J. T.
Hewlett, A.
Martin, E. S.
Fishblate, S. H.
Hale, S. G.
Metts, J. I.
Planner, A. J.
Honnett, George
McDonald, A. D.
Fillyaw, 0. M.
Hewlett, J. A.
McNair, S. P.
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
149
McClammy, Herbert
Matthews, J. E.
Mason, H. W.
Meares, J. Iredell
Merritt, Robert C.
Maunder, J. Frank
McMillan, Thomas
Merritt, B. A.
Nobles, S. W.
Norgard, E.
Price, R. W.
Platt, P. F.
Pecard, W. E.
Pratt, T. J.
Post, J. F.
Parker, W. T.
Solomon, S.
Shrier, A.
Sprunt, James
Small, W D.
Smith, W. J.
Storm, W. E.
Stout, John C.
Springer, Wm. E.
Scott, B. H.
Sloan, E. D.
Stormfelz, J. W.
Smith, James
Stone, R. R.
Wilder, Jesse
Whitted, D. C.
Warren, R. F.
White, C. H.
Weil, Jacob
Waddell, A. M.
Yates, C. W.
Zaeller, A. H.
ROYAL WHITE HART LODGE, No. 2— Halifax.
Regular Communications first and third Wednesdays in each month
C. H. Hale, M.
E. L. Travis, S. W.
B. H. Hale, J. W.
B. V. Butts, Treas.
OFFICERS.
Lewis Froelich, Sec. pro tem.
R. J. Day, S. D. pro tem.
J. D. Whitehead, J. D.
J. II. Batchelor, Tiler.
MEMBERS.
Alston, R. P. Dicken, N. B. Stedman, N. L.
Daniel, J. J. Furgerson, II. B.
ST. JOHN’S LODGE, No. 3— Newbern.
Regular Communications second Wednesday evening in each month.
OFFICERS.
C. D. Bradham, M.
O. Marks, S. W.
Jas. Redmond, J. W.
T. A. Green, Treas.
E. W. Rosenthal, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — O. Marks, Jas
MEMBERS.
Albertson, J. L. Basnight, J. S. Benton, J. H.
Baker, A. M. Bacon, L. R. Bragaw, S. C.
J. C. Green, S. D.
H. W. Simpson, J. D.
F. M. Hohn, S.
J. F. Rhem, S.
W. S. Gaskins, Tiler.
. Redmond, T. A. Green-
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Brooks, S. W.
Hohn, Mayer
Rowe, E. F.
Case, Needham
Hackburn, E- B.
Roberts, F. C.
Clark, C. C., P. G. M.
Henderson, George
Roberts, G. H.
Clark, W. W.
Henry, Thos. A.
Street, S. R.
Crapon, G. M.
Hill, Wm. T.
Smaw, D. G.
Daniels, Thos.
Howard, George
Simmons, F. M.
Dewey, T W,
Howard, J. J.
Stewart, J. W.
Dunn, Win.
Hunter, S. J.
Sutton; M. H.
Ernul, W. H.
Hyde, A.
Taylor, LeeJ.
Erwin, D. H.
Hyman, T. G.
Taylor, John P.
Edwards, C. R. F.
Lovick. H. J.
Ulrich, F.
Fowler, J. L-
Moore, Jas. W.
Warren, J. E.
Foy, C. E.
McCarthy, T. F.
Watson, W. M.
Foy, C. B.
McIntosh, W. A.
Whitford, J. D.
Green, Geo.
Neal, B. B.
Wilson, Thos.
Guion, O. H.
Primrose, R. S.
Warters, W. R.
Hackburn, J. H.
Pitts, W. J.
Weinstein, Jos.
CHARITY LODGE, No. 5— Windsor.
Regular Communications first Monday evening in each month.
Dr. H V. Dunston, M.
Hon. F. D. Winston, S.
OFFICERS.
W.
R. W. Askew, S. D
James Alston, J. D
James B. Nichols, J. W
John W Mizell, S.
Wm. M. Davis, Treas.
Dr. E. W. Pugh, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — L. S. Davis, R. W
Wm. C. Miller, S.
L. S. Davis, Tiler.
Askew.
Bowen, Wm Richard
MEMBERS.
Harden, John Samuel
Smith, Robert E. Lee
Bowen, James L.
Hayes, Walter S.
Snell, A. Warren
Bowen, John H.
Heckstall, Wm. T.
Shield, Robert J.
Bazemore, Robinson C.
Lyon, Henry W.
Smallwood, Thos. P.
Byrd, J. Robert
Lipsitz, Lewis
Spivey, Joseph L.
Bond, Charles
Morriss, William W.
Tayloe, Richard
Bazemore, Doctor L.
Outlaw, Edward R.
Todd, Thos. S.
Cherry, Solomon
Perry’, Martin V. B.
Turbyfill, Wm. A.
Castilow, T. O.
Pritchard, Abner L.
Williams, James M.
Cobb, Thos. Frank
Pritchard, William S.
Webb, Thos. J.
Freeman, James C.
Parker, M. Frank
Winston, Patrick H.
Flax, Jacob
Peele, William E-
White, Estus
Gill, Henry H.
Phelps, Thos. H.
White, Zora W.
Greenwell, Wm. F.
Sutton, Lewis Bond
Wiggins, Robert G.
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UNANIMITY LODGE, No. 7— Edenton.
Regular Communications first and third Tuesdays in each month, and
June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
E. R. Conger, M.
C. D. Morris, S. W.
C. W. Brinkley, J. W.
T. E. Gardiner, Treas.
C. P. Bogert, Sec.
Louis Zeigler, S. D.
C. M. Murden, J. D
J. C. Suydam, S.
J. D. Bateman, S.
I. T. Stacy, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — C. M. Murden, R. E. Lee, W. L. Nixon.
Anderson, G. B.
Bond, W. E.
Bonner, J. E.
Brickhonse, L. M.
Churchill, J. H.
Darden, O. H.
Edwards, W. F. C.
Ferebee, K. R.
Fleetwood, W. A.
MEMBERS.
Lee, R. E.
Leary, G. VV.
Newman, D.
Norman, E. S.
Nixon, W. L.
Olds, Thos.
Pruden, W. D.
Parker, J. R.
Shephard, W. B.
Smith, J. E
Stern, R. F.
Savage, J. Lloyd
Stephenson, J. H.
Wheeler, J. R.
Webb, J. H.
Wooten, Frank M.
PHCENIX LODGE, No. 8— Fayetteville.
Regular Communications every Friday night.
OFFICERS.
E- L. Remsburg, M.
C. W. Elliott, S. W.
R. A. Southerland, J. W.
I. W. Clark, Treas.
T. T. McGilvary, Sec.
J. A. Barnes, S. D.
J. G. Hollingsworth, J. D.
S. J. Grey, S.
D. K. Taylor, S.
John Johnson, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — I. W. Clark, Chas. Kennedy, T. T. Mc-
Gilvary.
Butler, B. R.
Campbell, W. H.
Cohen, N. H.
Currie, J. H.
MEMBERS.
Dixon, A. E.
Garrason, A.
Gardner, T. J.
Graddy, J. M.
Hawkins, B.
Hunter, E. L.
Jones, G. C.
Johnson, Jackson
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Johnson, J. W.
Jessup, Ralph
Lewis, T. F.
Moore, J. A.
McDonald, A. I.
Oherl, J. G.
Parker, S. R.
Perdue, W. M.
Powers, J. D.
Prior, Warren
Robinson, H. McD.
Sherrill, D. W.
Shepherd, E.
Slocomb, A. H.
Small, J. C.
Spell, L. O.
Thain, T. S.
Troy, J. B.
Vann, J. C.
Wemyss, W. P.
Wright, D. K.
Youngblood, N. E.
AMERICAN GEORGE LODGE, No. 17— Murfreesboro.
Regular Communications first Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. W. Fleetwood, M.
L. T. Wiggins, S. W.
W. E. Liverman, J. W.
J. D. Babb, Treas.
O. Parker, Sec.
C. T. Parker, S. D.
J. T. Benthall, J. D.
D. W. Beal, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. D. Babb, W. J. Boyette, C. T. Parker.
Adkins, C. W.
Boyette, W. J
Brett, H. R.
Carter, A. A.
Futrell, John
MEMBERS.
Forbes, T. M.
Forbes, W. E.
Martin, J. W.
Nelson, W.
Parker, J. Q.
Rood, J. A.
Sumner, Isaac
Wynn, J. M.
PHALANX LODGE, No. 31 — Charlotte.
Regular Communications third Tuesday in each month.
OFFICERS.
N. M. Lawrence, M.
C. E. Stenerson, S. W.
Jno. M. Scott, J. W.
Geo. H. King, Treas.
J. M. Oldham, Sec.
T. D. Arledge, S. D
J. O. Walker, J. D.
Wm. Anderson, S.
R. H, Jordan, S.
J. H. Shore, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — R. H. Jordan, W. S. Liddell, L. A. Dobs-
worth.
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Adams, C. C.
Allen, D. E.
Alexander, T. M.
Anderson, Wm.
Arledge, McD.
Arledge, R. F.
Ayler, W. L.
Blair, R. K.
Beaman, W. T.
Berryhill, S. R.
Brevard, R. J.
Campbell, C. H.
Clarkson, H.
Crowell, W. M.
Davidson, W. H.
Davidson, J. E. S.
Davidson, B. M.
Davis, B. S.
Day, H. M.
Dellon, B. H.
Dorretee, J. A.
Durham, F. R.
Gaither, T. H.
Grasheim, Sigmund
Goff, Jeremiah
Griffith, Thos.
. MEMBERS.
Harry, J. M.
Henderson, Flynn.
Hinson, Z. A.
Keerans, J. L.
Kleuppleberg, H. A.
Krieble, S. C.
King, W. J.
Litaker, D. M.
Lowe, S J.
Lucas, T. T.
Magill, T. R.
Mayer, M. C.
Mayes, J. H.
Misenheimer, J. F.
Mellon, E. W.
Michaelson, E.
Milburn, F. P.
Murrill, H. A.
McCausland, A. E-
McKoy, G. P.
Neis, Geo. L
Northey, Jas.
Orr, Jno. F.
Page, G. A.
Pegram, E- S.
Ramsay, R. H.
Rehman, F. B.
Robertson, J. F.
Robertson, T. R.
Robertson, W. R.
Ross, J. B.
Shannonhouse, J. G.
Seawell, Luke
Smith, R. W.
Springs, A. A.
Sammersett, W. B.
Tapp, J. L.
Tate, F.N.
Todd, D. S.
Vandever, W. M.
Wadsworth, C. F.
Wadsworth, G. P.
Wadsworth, J. W.
Watt, W. W.
Waisner, J. F.
Williams, L. S.
Williams, P. H.
Wilson, Hamilton
Wenipy, C. W.
Woodley, W. T.
Wynne, W. A.
STOKES LODGE, No. 32— Concord.
Regular Communications Monday on or before each full moon
OFFICERS.
Jas. C. Fink, M.
J. M. Sills, S. W.
W. H. McNairy, J. W.
Jno. M. Alexander, Treas.
W. R. Johnson, Sec.
C. D. Robbins, S. D.
C. S. Smart, J. D.
J. S. Lafferty, S.
J. A. Kennett, S.
D. A. Caldwell, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — D. A. Caldwell, J. A. Kennett, Chas. S.
Smart.
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Archey, L. M.
Boger, J. L.
Bridges, John
Brower, R. A.
Bost, C. W.
Bundy, Shubal
Buchanan, M. L.
Barrier, W. W.
Correll, P. A.
Cannon, D. F.
Cannon, J. W.
Coble, R. F.
Crowell, G. T.
Day vault, D. P.
Edwards, E. W.
MEMBERS.
Fowler, H. L.
Fowlkes, J. M.
Griffin, R. H.
Hill, W. J.
Harris, W. R.
Hurley, J. F.
Howell, Z. V.
Huggins, J. N.
Johnson, D. D.
Jones, J. F.
Kluttz, Jno. C.
Mclnnes, John
Mathis, J. C.
Mitchell, M. E.
Ould, G. W.
Propst, M. A.
Perkins, C. H.
Pemberton, W. D.
Reed, Jno. F.
Smith, Jas. E-
Sossamon, b . M.
Tucker, H. W.
Walter, M. C:
Winecoff, G. M. V.
Walker, Joseph C.
Willeford, J. T.
White, A. H.
Weir, H. M.
DAVIE LODGE, No. 39— Roxobee.
Regular Communications Friday before the third Sunday in each
month.
OFIFCERS.
Geo. T. Parker, M.
John E. Tyler, S. W.
W. R. Smith, J. W.
A. T. Livermon, Treas.
David E. Parker, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — T. P.
Wm. Acree, S. D.
J. C. Tillery, J. D.
W. W. Wilkins, S.
E. b. Tyler, S.
James H. Carter, Tiler.
Early, R. H. Norfleet, P. C. Tyler.
Brown, Joshua
Brown, J. J.
Baker, J. G.
Bazemore, J. R.
Brantly, W. A.
Deans, C. T.
Griffin, H.
MEMBERS.
Hening, W. S.
Harrell, W. J.
Jilcott, J. J.
Jenkins, P. C.
Kennedy, D. S.
Nichols, L. P.
Pitman, E. C.
Rawles, W. T.
Saunders, J. E.
Saunders, W. A.
Spivey, J. W.
Scott, R. G.
White, J. R.
White, J. H.
HIRAM LODGE, No. 40 — RaeEigh.
Regular Communications first and third Mondays in each month.
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OFFICERS.
W. W. Parish, M.
T. B. Womack, S. W.
J. W. Coffey, J. W.
Thos. W. Blake, Treas.
Edward B. Thomas, Sec.
Henry Harris, S. D.
A. E. Glenn, J. D.
F. W. Mahler, S.
Sam Friedman, S.
Anderson Betts, Tiler
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. S. Primrose, W. H. Bain, A. E. Glenn.
Adams, Len. H.
Andrews, A. B.
Busbee, Fab. H.
Brown, W. M.
Branson, Levi
Bragg, W. H.
Bowes, Michael
Broughton, J. T.
Bain, W. H.
Beine, C. H.
Briggs, W. W.
Bunch, N. N.
Bland, H. A.
Beavers, W. R.
Byrum, D. R.
Cole, J. W.
Christophers, C. D.
Crawford, J. H.
Clark, Walter
Card, B. W.
Cooper, Tho. R.
Debnam, J. E.
MEMBERS.
Earp, PI. W.
Evans, J. W.
Fraps, J. C.
Gray, R. T.
Glass, Geo. H.
Gilleland, U. A.
Gooch, Eugene T.
Greason, Geo. H.
Hay, T. T.
Harris, Bernard
Hatch, F. A.
Harris, J. R.
Jones, R. P.
Kleuppelberg, Chas.
Kennedy, Geo. F.
Kohn, Joseph M.
Kohn, Chas.
Levine, David
Lowry, H. S.
Matthews, Jonas
Marcom, J. C
Matthews, W. P.
Nichols, John
Norris, M. T.
Pescud, J. S.
Porter, W. A.
Primrose, W. S.
Rosenthal, G.
Rosengarten, A.
Riggan, M. H.
Ray, Henderson
Smith, W. W.
Sanders, J. A.
Snelling, W. N.
Seligson, Ike
Snuggs, C. P.
Samuels, Louis
Timberlake, J. B.
Terrell, S. M.
Thompson, Ed. H.
Wilton, H. S.
Walker, S. W.
Willson, W. W.
LIBERTY LODGE, No. 45 — Wilkesboro.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before each full moon.
OFFICERS.
R. N. Hackett, M.
E. Wallace, S. W.
E. O. Mastin, J. W.
J. M. Turner, Treas
R. A. Deal, Sec.
C. Call, S. D.
John Wellborn, J. D.
Albert Forester, Tiler.
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MEMBERS.
Brown, Ambrose
Finley, T. B.
Phillips, J. E-
Call, B. S.
Greene, H. L.
Somers, J. F.
Davis, T. M.
Hackett, J. G.
St. Clair, W. J.
Foster, W. A.
Holmes, G. W.
Vannoy, H. S.
Forester, J. S.
Miller, T. S.
Weysel, T. M.
HALL
LODGE, No. 53. — Indian Town.
Regular Communications first Saturday in each mouth.
OFFICERS.
W. D. Barnard, M.
S. W. Williams, S. D
J. W. Cox, S. W.
W. S. Dough, J. D.
B. F. Griffin, J. W.
J. E. C. Bell, S.
J. B. Bray, Treas.
Thomas Curls, S.
W. G. Cox, Sec.
James Heath, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. C. Perkins.
MEMBERS.
Boswood, John
Hall, T. P.
Mitchell, Ed.
Britton, R. F.
Heath, George
Mercer, J. F.
Gregory, Henry
Jones, Felix
Poyner, T. E.
Griggs, G. A.
Mercer, F. M.
Shaw, Hall
KING SOLOMON LODGE, No. 56— Jackson.
Regular Communications first Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
S. J. Calvert, M.
R. T. Stephenson, S. D.
H. I,. Stephenson, S.
W.
J. L. Bradley, J. D.
F. R. Harris, J. W.
S. M. Bailey, S.
W. H. Buffaloe, Treas.
G. S. Wright, 3.
E. J. Peebles, Sec.
W. H. Boone, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. P. Moore,
W. P. Vick, J. V. Rogers.
MEMBERS.
Archer, J. T.
Darden.
Ivey.
Alston, S. C.
Drake.
Jernigan.
Barham, R. J.
Garris.
Lanier.
Bristowe, G. A.
Grant.
Lewis.
Crew.
Grant.
McRae.
Cocke.
Hazlett.
Pearson.
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Rubin. Seldon, J. N. Weaver, R. A.
Stephenson, G. W. Sears, J. T. Woodruff, W. E.
Stephenson, R. E. Stancell, M. F.
CONCORD LODGE, No. 58— Tarboro.
Regular Communications second and fourth Tuesdays in each month
and June 24th and December 27th.
Geo. Howard, Jr., M.
J. R. Harrell, S. W.
S. R. Alley, J. W.
R. E. L. Cook, Treas.
J. A. Weddell, Sec.
OFFICERS.
G. L. Heilbroner, S.
James McCann, J. D
J. L. Hobgood, S.
T. T. Cherry, S.
A. P. Hyman, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — G. L. Heilbroner, S. R. Alley, A.
Fairley.
MEMBERS.
Austin, C. J.
Haynes, A. A.
Lloyd, J. B.
Andrews, W. H.
Heilbroner, M.
Michael, Wm.
Baker, J. M
Jenkins, S. F.
Martin, J. W.
Beasly, W. F.
Johnson, S. F.
Nash, H. K.
Barnhill, J. I.
Johnston, Henry
Newton, J. K.
Brown, G. S.
Jenkins, J. F.
Pender, J. R.
Brown, H. G.
Jenkins, C. L-
Rollins, W. J.
Brown, J. H.
Knight, E. C.
Roberson, E. L.
Boykin, S.
Knight, W. T.
Studdert, G. J.
Cotten, J. W.
Killebrew, C. L.
Sugg, P. S.
Clark, Haywood
King, C. H.
Swindell. J. C.
Day, J. W.
Lawrence, Sam
Stallings, W. S.
Eagle, B. F., Jr.
Lichterstein, D.
Watson, R. A.
Fairley, A. M.
Liles, R.
Whitehurst, J. J.
Harrell, Wm.
Liles, J. C.
Worsley, J. O.
Hargrove, W. F.
Liles, J. F.
Wilkins, W. L.
KILWINNING LODGE, No. 64— Wadesboro.
Regular Communications first Monday in each month and Festivals of
St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist.
OFFICERS.
J. C. McLauchlin, M.
Dr.J. H. Bennett, S. W.
L. J. Huntley, J. W.
James A. Hardison, Treas.
I. H. Horton, Sec.
H. W. Little, S. D.
P. H. Phillips, J. D.
J. S. Troutman, Tiler.
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Adams, Rev. J. O.
Carr, W. H.
Huntley, G. W.
Hargrove, Fred
Hathcock, J. W.
Hardison, J. M.
MEMBERS.
Ingram, J. B.
Liles, W. A.
Little, W. B.
Little, John P.
Little, F. M.
Lowry, Addison
McRae, Dr. John A.
Marsh, E. S.
Marshall, T. A.,
Sully, Edwin
EAGLE LODGE, No. 71— Hillsboro.
Regular Communications Friday on or before full moon in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. S. Spurgeon, M.
S. M. Gattis, S. D.
Jas. H. Hedgpeth, S.
w.
P. H. Smith, J. D.
A. J. Ruffin, J. W.
Clay King, S.
Jno. W. Ray, Treas.
W. E. Hall, S.
H. L. Parish, Sec.
A. J. Gordan, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — H. L. Parish, S.
MEMBERS.
M. Gattis, A. J. Ruffin
Baity, J. B.
Hassell, E. L.
Parker, W. S.
Boggs, Chas. L.
Hastings, W. M.
Parks, Jas.
Boggs, Cash A.
Jones, N. T.
Roach, Jno. R.
Cheek, Thos. M.
King, Morris
Rosemond, E. A.
Cheek, J. Clyde
Kirkpatrick, Joe T.
Roseinond, J. B.
Freeland, Wm. J.
Lloyd, W. L.
Ray, Geo. C.
Freeland, Geo. J.
Meares, W. B.
Shaw, Jno. T.
Freeland, Joe M.
Miller, D. S.
Sherrill, E. T.
Faucette, F. R.
Murray, W. R.
Tinnin, Thos. D., Jr.
Goodman, J. W.
Murphy, H. E.
Wilson, Thos. H.
Hayes, Thos. C.
Murdock, A. A.
Webb, Thos. H.
Hughes, Jno. K.
Newman, Wm. H.
Wilson, W. E.
Hughes, E- A.
Parish, Jas. H.
WIDOW’
'S SON LODGE, No. 75
, — Camden.
Regular Communications third Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
M. Smith, M.
H. C. Lamb, S. W.
J. J. Forbes, J. W.
S. B. Forbes, Treas.
R. L. Forbes, Sec.
W. D. Forbes, S. D.
Jas. Gilbert, J. D.
A. Evans, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — R. L. Forbes, Hugh Pritchard.
MEMBERS.
Booth, William Gregory, J. D Scott, H. W.
Forbes, Isaac M. Morrisett, W. W. Tillett, I. N.
Graudy, N. G.
GkEENSBORO LODGE, No. 76 — Greensboro.
Regular Communicatii
J. D. Glenn, M.
H. S. Buchanan, S. W
A. E. B. Alford, J. W.
W.. E. Coffin, Treas.
W. T. Gayle, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Comm
Adams, S. B.
Adair, C. J.
Agner, A. L.
Albright, R. M.
Alderman, A. H.
Alderman, S. L.
Barnes, J. R.
Battie, C. W.
Battle, J. T. J.
Bell, Thos.
Berger, H. C.
Best, B. W.
Bogert, C. B.
Boycott, O. D.
Boyd, S. H.
Bray, C. A.
Brooks, R. H.
Browne, Sam’l
Burgin, F. A.
Burnett, J. F.
Cannada, J. A.
Carmon, H. L-
Carr, O. W.
Carson, J. T.
Catlin, J. E.
second and fourth
OFFICERS.
ittee — Sam’l Browne, \\
MEMBERS.
Causey, J. W.
Cone, Ceasar
Crutchfield, W. G.
Dick, Jno. M.
Dodson, S. C.
Fountain, J. I.
Foushee, J. G.
Frazier, A. P.
Garsed, E. T.
Gentry, J. C.
Glenn, Tyre
Godfrey, W. A.
Grissom, W. L.
Hall, N. L.
Hankins, Louis
Helms, J. D.
Henley, L. A.
Hennessee, W. A.
High, A. B.
Hohlfeld, H. L.
Hunt, W. M.
Jarrell, J. F.
Jones, J. S.
Keeling, J. L.
Lash, W. A.
Thursdays in each month.
John Thames, S. D.
J. E. Seagraves, J. D.
L. M. Clymer, S.
J. M. Baley, S.
W. R. Butler, Tiler.
r.E. Coffin, A. E. B. Alford.
Lindan,J. W.
Lindley, J. Van
McDuffie, N. J.
McMillan, A. G.
Mebane, G. A.
Miller, E. A.
Monroe, O. W.
Odell, J. A.
Pierce, J. C.
Price, Julian
Pritchett, J. A.
Reinhard, A. L.
Rierson, R. L.
Shields, M. L.
Smith, R. H.
Sternberger, Herman
Stone, J. J.
Strauss, Moses
Strowd, P. E.
Taylor, Z. V.
Williams, O.
VTnecoff, C. G.
Winn, J. H.
Woodroffe, Geo.
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ZION LODGE, No. 81— Trenton.
Regular Communications third Saturday in each month:
OFFICERS.
Dr. R. A. Whitaker, M. F. Brock, S. D.
J. P. Harper, S. W. J. D. Heath, J. D.
W. J. Richardson, J. W. L. Taylor, S.
W. C. Kinsey, Treas. W. J. Perry, S.
W. H. Hammond, Sec. F. A. Casper, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. C. Kinsey, H. T. White, L. King.
Barker, S.
Banks, J. B.
Benson, J. M.
Brock, B.
Brogden, J. P.
Cox, W. H.
Charlton, J. N.
Dixon, F. M.
Francks, W. W.
Foy, E. R.
MEMBERS.
Foscue, F. W.
Greer, R. W.
Harrison, J. E-
Hardy, E. L.
Heath, J. T.
Jones, F. W.
Koonce, F. P.
Koonce, S. E.
Lee, L. T.
McDaniel, Wm.
Mattocks, Dr. J. C.
Mallard, D. L.
Mallard, J. W.
Pearsall, P. M.
Pearce, Jno.
Rhodes, W. H.
Starling, R. W.
Yoffie, Sam
Lafayette lodge, no. 83— jacksonvieee.
Regular Communications Wednesday after the third Saturday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
E. M. Koonce, M.
F. W. Hargett, S. W.
S. W. Venters, J. W.
J. S. N. Kinsey, Treas.
W. B. Murrill, Sec.
N. D. Murrill, S. D
M. T. Klien, J. D.
L. W. Hargett, S.
Stratton Burton, S.
L. J. Taylor, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — L- W. Hargett, Chas. Gerock, O. F. Justice
Andrews, Frank
Burton, M. L.
Bullock, J. W.
Bray, W. T.
Capps, M. M.
Ervin, Geo. W.
Giles, J.F.
Greer, Benjamin
Gerock, Charles
MEMBERS.
Hoyt, L- L.
Hurst, Geo. A.
Jarman, J. T.
Justice, O. F.
Jarman, Thos. H.-
Koonce, Chas. D.
Murrill, E. W.
Moore, N. S.
Morton, C. C.
Moore, Wm. F.
Moore, N. M.
Mclver, James
Porter, Elisha
Pearson, W. R.
Paddison, R. N.
Petteway, Chas. A.
Smith, E- S.
Taylor, S. B.
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FELLOWSHIP LODGE, No. 84— Smithfield.
Regular Communications second Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
R. J. Noble, M.
Elias Rose, S. W.
C. S. Powell, J. W.
T. R. Hood, Treas.
H. Cohen, Sec.
Orphan Asylitm Committee — T. C. Davis.
MEMBERS.
Cotten, R. O.
Crumpler, R. W.
Cohen, Isadore
Creech, London
Fuller, W. L.
Gardner, Polie
Hudson, J. B.
Johnson, Jno. A.
Johnson, W. G.
Johnson, D. P.
Lunceford, A. P
Morgan, S. R.
Nichols, A. C.
Pou, E. W.
J. C. Bingham, S. D.
J. W. Strickland, J.D.
N. Barnes, S.
H. L- Johnson, S.
J. T. Barham, Tiler.
Pratt, T. W.
Peterson, H. A
Stancel, Moses
Stevens, W. S.
Smith, A. K.
Watson, G. H.
Wallace, E. E.
MORNING STAR LODGE, No. 85— Nashville.
Regular Communications second Friday and fourth Saturday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
Samuel S. Gay, M.
John H. Smith, S. W.
Chas. L. Johnston, J. W.
Samuel H. Griffin, Treas.
John H. T. Baker, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Gideon Coggin,
R. C. Dixon, M. B. Batchelor.
Arrington, John P.
Baker, Josiah D.
Batchelor, May B.
Batchelor, George W.
Batchelor, B. W.
Batchelor, W. S.
Bone, Richard W.
MEMBERS.
Barnes, Jas. M.
Cockrell, Jno. S.
Cockrell, I. V.
Crocker, E. H.
Coley, T. E.
Dozier, Jno. R.
Dawes, Geo. T.
Josiah J. Cockrell, S. D.
Wm. A. Smith, J. D.
Wm. A. Collins, S.
John J, Jones, S.
Rufus Smith, Tiler.
R. L. May, W. B. High,
Exum, Jas. H.
Floyd, Willie J.
Gardner, David W.
Gay, Geo. W.
Griffin, Wm. T.
Hickey, Jos. P.
Hawkins, Daniel
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Jones, Edward H.
Kemp, Jos. J.
Mann, Wm. R.
Matthews, Jas. A.
Mullen, Thos.
Mullen, Francis
Merritt, Chas. D.
Pernell, John W.
Ricks, Augustus H.
Ross, Terrelius T.
Stone, John W
Strickland, Geo W.
Sledge, I. C.
Winstead, Jas. D.
Whitley, Davis C.
SKEWARKEE LODGE, No. 90— Wieliamston.
Regular Communications second and fourth Tuesdays in each month
OFFICERS.
H. W. Stubbs, M.
W. C. Manning, S. W.
S. S. Brown, J. W.
W. H. Harrell, Treas.
S. R. Biggs, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W.
Ballard.
T. W. Thomas, S. D
McG. Taylor, J. D.
W. W. Hardison, S.
J. H. D. Bowen, S.
R. W. Clary, Tiler.
. Roberson, J. H. Hatton, Jas. R
Brock, E. P.
Biggs, Jos. D.
Burroughs, S. G.
Bailey, J. W.
Burras, H. M.
Blunt, Geo. W.
Brown, R. M.
Bissel, William
Carstarphen, C. D.
Cook, T. C.
Cowen, O. K.
Cowen, Jos. W.
Cretcher, M. M.
Cowen, H. W.
Carstarphen, W. H.
DeLotch, B. F.
Daws, M. B.
Edwards, W. H.
Ellison, S. H.
Ellison, J. R.
MEMBERS.
Green, W. M.
Green, Jesse V.
Gurganus, Eli
Hedgepeath, W. G.
Hassell, J. S.
Harrell, S. W.
Hodges, F. K.
Jackson, H. C.
Jones, H. R.
Jordan, J. C.
Keith, C. W.
Latham, T. J.
Leggett, J. D.
Lilley, W. B.
Lamb, J. C.
Lamb, W. G.
Mayo, W. R.
Mobley, W. H.
Mobley, J. R.
Peel, N. S.
Proctor, W. C.
Perry, N. T.
Peel, R. J.
Price, J. T.
Roberson, J. W.
Rogerson, Charley
Slade, Henry
Swain, J. G.
Smith, A. H.
Staton, J. G.
Strawbridge, J. N.
Taylor, H. D.
Taylor, A. F.
Ward, J. R.
Whitley, G. L.
Whitaker, W. J.
Watkinson, J. W.
Warington, J. W.
York, W. M.
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WESTERN STAR LODGE, No. 91 — Rotherfordton.
Regular Communications first Monday in each month and St. John’s
Day.
J. B. Carpenter, M.
S. Gallert, S. W.
J. C. Mills, J. W.
D. F. Morson, Treas.
A. L. Grayson, Sec.
OFFICERS.
A D. K. Wallace, S. D.
B. A. Justice, S.
J. H. Smith, S.
W. C. Brittain, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — C. B. Justice, E* T. Reveley, D. F. Morson.
Allen, J. Me
Allen, A. J.
Abernethy, Rev. J. E.
Brendle, Rev. J. II.
Blackwood, Marcus
Clarke, J. W.
Cook, John
Dickerson, M. O.
Grant, S. B.
Harris, E. C.
Justice, M. H.
members.
Justice, Rev. C. B.
Justice, Rev. T. B.
Landrum, Rev. M. M.
Lewis, J. P.
Lynch, Dr. W. L.
Logan, R. W.
Logan, B. L.
Long, G. W.
McFarland, J. W.
Reveley, E- T.
Reynolds, Frank
Ridings, J. I.
Simmons, M. W.
Searcy, J. C.
Tanner, C. P.
Whiteside, Rev. Z. T.
Whiteside, Rev. W. M.
Whiteside, J. M.
Whiteside, A. S.
Wood, J. H.
JOSEPH WARREN LODGE, No. 92— Moyton.
Regular Communications first Thursday and third Monday in each
month.
B. J. Thompson, M.
W. H. Jones, S. W.
H. E. Thompson, J. W.
D. B. Hill, Treas.
E. C. Exum, Sec.
OFFICERS.
W. H. Applewhite, Jr., S.D.
N. G. Moore, J. D.
J. W. Stancil, S.
L- N. Shelton, S.
R. Jones, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — H. E. Thompson, W. H. Applewhite, Sr.,
W. S. Lane.
Applewhite, J. H.
Bynum, J. J.
Bynum, R. E-
Best, J. H.
members.
Duggan, W. A.
Ellis, R. A.
Gardner, J. W.
Grantham, H. S.
Gilbert, W. J.
Holland, R. H.
Howard, K. L-
Howard, Wm.
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Kennedy, T. S.
Moye, F. M.
May, Wm.
Mattox, W. R.
Moore, J. T.
Overman, J. J.
Owens, B. N.
Scarborough, J. L-
Sauls, H. J.
Spears, W. H.
Shelton, W. L-
Turner, E. J.
Turner, J. E-
Ward, W. M.
Walton, C. B.
Woodard, Warren
Walker, Barney
JERUSALEM LODGE, No. 95— Hookerton.
Regular Communications second Tuesday in each month.
W. H. Johnson, M.
W. W. Ormond, S. W.
H. C. Edwards, J. W.
J. J. Edwards, Treas.
OFFICERS.
G. C. Edwards, Sec.
J. A. Aldridge, S. D.
O. W. Frizzle, J. D.
James Grimsley, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — H. C. Edwards, J. A. Aldridge, James
Grimsley.
MEMBERS.
Coward, E. A.
Moore, J. J.
Ormond, A. L.
Frizzle, H. H.
Grimsley, James
Ormond, H. C.
Taylor, F. G.
ST. JOHN’S LODGE, No. 96— Kinston.
Regular C ommunications second Wednesday in each month, also St.
John’s Day, June 24th, and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
Samuel H. Rountree, Sr., M.
Plato Collins, S. W.
John W. Black, J. W.
F. C. Dunn, Treas.
H. W. Cummings, Sec.
Leuther A. Eborn, S. D.
Levi G. Ferrell, J. D.
Henry C. Bailey, S.
K. W. Whitfield, S.
John O. Hawkins, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — H. W. Cummings, Levi G. Ferrell, Jesse
T. Heath.
Albee, C. H.
Askew, J. T.
Bailey, Clem
Ball, J. T.
Bezzell, E- W.
Bryan, Herman
MEMBERS.
Boney, O. T.
Cummings, J. B.
Cockrell, J. T.
Carney, T. B.
Chadwick, E. W.
Dunn, W. W.
Dunn, R. B.
Daughety, A. T.
Ellis, James H.
Fields, W. S.
Haw’kins, F. M.
Hill, Jesse H.
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Hostetler, Joseph M.
Hill, R. L.
Jones, B. F.
Loops, F. C.
Mewborne, W. E.
Moore, W. F.
Moore, W. E.
Moore, J. J.
Moore, Albert H.
Moore, John H.
Mitchell, J. H.
Presson, T. J.
Padrick, A. S.
Rountree, Robert H.
Sutton, T. G.
Swift, W. C.
Taylor, William G.
Warters, Jerry
NEUSE LODGE, No. 97— Neuse.
Regular Communications Saturday before second Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
J. H. Fleming, M.
W. O. Ferrell, S. W.
W. P. Edwards, J. W.
C. J. Lassiter, Treas.
E- C. Beddingfield, Sec.
J. W. Reddish, S. D.
Walter Brickley, J. D
W. D. Dean, S.
L. H. House, S.
W. H. Dean, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — R. W. Jeffreys, W. H. Richardson, Garrett
Reddish.
Adams, W. S.
Adams, J. B.
Dunn, J. J.
Ferrell, E. M.
Green, L- M.
House, J. W.
Hobgood, L. P
Jones, I. K.
Jeffreys, R. W.
Norwood, G. W.
Pace, H. V.
Ray, H. C.
Ray, H. L.
Richardson, W. H.
Reddish, R. T.
Reddish, Garrett
Rogers, J. R.
Sanderford, N. G.
Stephens, Alex.
HIRAM LODGE, No. 98— Clinton.
Regular Communications first Monday and third Friday in each month.
officers.
A. H. Herring, M.
Geo. L. Peterson, S. W.
R. E. Lee, J. W.
H. B. Giddens, Treas.
Chas. S. Boyette, Sec.
J. C. Hubbard, S. D.
W. J. Beaman, J. D.
R. M. Crumpler, S.
B. Matthews, S.
Nick Boon, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — D. A. Culbreth, M. J. Newman, R. Mc-
Kenzie.
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Bethune, L. A.
Butler, T. E.
Blount, Z. V.
Bass, J. R.
Culbreth, H. B
Ezzell, J. D.
Ezzell, C. W.
Ferrell, J. A.
Faison, H. E.
Grady, H. A.
members.
Gilbert, W O.
Herring, A. T.
Hanstien, Moses
Johnson, A. J
Johnson, C. P.
King, A. H.
Lewis, A. A.
McCullen, J. H.
McCullen, W. A.
McPhail, J. R.
Powell, J. M.
Peterson, A. C.
Page, R.
Parker, C. P.
Royal, Alvin
Royal, J. H.
Smith, David
Skinner, F. N.
Turlington, R. C.
FULTON LODGE, No. 99 — Salisbury.
Regular Communications first and third Fridays in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. W. Taylor, M.
A. L. Smoot, S. W
J. C. Sowers, J W.
J. Horah, Treas.
R. G. Kizer, Sec.
Bismarck Capps, S. D
J. R. Monroe, J. D.
C. W. Hayes, S.
T. Robinson, S.
F. M. Tarrh, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. F. McCubbins, J. M. Monroe, R. B. Wood.
Allen, W. J.
Arey, C. C.
Beard, P. B.
Bernhardt, P. H.
Brown, J. S.
Brown, C. M.
Brown, C N.
Bolick, J. A.
Bost, N. A.
Bean, M. L.
Beadles, W. E.
Coughenour, W. C.
Councill, J. B.
Cuthrell, J. F.
Clement, L- H.
Caldwell, A. H.
Cline, J. Wm.
Conely, T. E.
members,
Cumming, C. R.
Coggins, J. D.
Dreher, A. H.
Duval, H. L.
Frost, W. S.
Feimster, R. K.
Griffith, J. F.
Goodson, D. W.
Gollimore, O. S.
Gregg, S. A.
Hedrick, J. A.
Heilig, J. D.
Harrison, J. A.
Hennessee, J. E.
Holshouser, J. A.
Jackson, M. L.
J ulian, J. M.
Kluttz, C. H.
Ketchie, L. M. S.
Krider, J. H.
Lichtenstein, I.
Linn, T. C.
Linn, P. D.
Low, J. C.
Low, J. F.
Lyerly, Jno. H. A.
Locke, J. A.
Levy, Max
McCubbins, J. F.
McCubbins, J. S.
McCanless, J. C.
McBee, Thos.
McAllister, E. L.
McAbee, H. B.
McKenzie, W. W.
Misenheimer, W. R.
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Monroe, J. M.
Moore, C. W.
Neave, E. B.
Nowland, C. W.
Parker, A.
Pickier, W. S.
Quinn, M. C.
Reisner, C. P.
Roseman, R. P.
Ramsay, J. H.
Rufty, G. A.
Rendleman, J. L-
Ragle, H. A.
Ross, T. L.
Rogers, W. N.
Sheeping, S. J.
Smoot, W. B.
Shaver, G. H.
Shaver, C. L.
Sossamon, J. T.
Strachan, W. B
Spencer, O. W.
Snider, D. W.
Sutton, J. V.
Sullivan, H. H.
Schooley, R. B.
Stancill, J. F.
Sigman, D. N.
Taylor, W. S.
Trott, H. C.
Trantham, H. T.
Tankersle}', A.
Teiser, Wm.
Tucker, A. W.
Turner, G. S.
Woodrum, W. J.
Woodrum, J. L.
Walker, R H.
Wilson, E. A.
Ward, F. M.
Wells, A. B.
Wood, R. B.
Worthen, B. S.
WARREN LODGE, No. ioi — Kenansville.
Regular Communications first and third Fridays in each month.
OFFICERS.
Jas. M. Archer, M.
L. A. Beasley, S. W.
A. F. Williams, Sr., J. W.
S. B. Newton, Treas.
Orphan Asylum Committee-
Owens.
Alonzo T. Hocutt, Sec.
Herbert Smith, S. D.
S. R. Bowden, J. D.
G. A. Outlaw, Tiler.
A. F. Williams, Sr., L. Middleton, H. G.
Allen, Oliver H.
Bowden, Jas. J.
Best, D. E-
Boyette, H. S.
Carr, Jas. O.
Carlton, D. L.
MEMBERS.
Grimes, W. L.
Hill, E. J.
Johnson, Jos. E.
Johnson, Jno. N.
Kelly, I. B.
Kelly, Thos. J.
Middleton, D. J.
Middleton, L.
Owens, H. G.
Pollock, J. E.
Powell, J. A.
Williams, A. F., Jr.
COLUMBUS LODGE, No. 104— Pittsboro.
Regular Communications first Tuesday in each month, Tuesday of
Court weeks, and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS. k
T. H. Calvert, M.
B. Nooe, S. W.
J. F. Alston, J. W.
G. R. Pilkington, Treas.
W. M. Eubanks, Sec.
F. C. Poe, S. D.
Rev. J. H. Frizelle, J. D.
H. L. Coble, S.
Andrew Seigner, S.
W. W. Dismukes, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — W. M. Eubanks, G. R. Pilkington, Andrew
Seigner.
MEMBERS.
Holt, S. M. Poe, W. N.
London, W. L. Seigner, J. E.
London, H. A., Jr. Straughon, I. H.
Merritt, A. H.
ORR LODGE, No. 104 — Washington.
Regular Communications first and third Tuesdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. H. Harris, S. D.
J. B. Moore, J. D.
H. B. Clark, S.
E. T. Stewart, S.
Jos. G. Chancy, Tiler.
W. S. Frizzle, J. H. Harris, C. H. Roberson.
Alligood, S. F.
MEMBERS.
Llardison, Asa
Nicholson, J. T.
Bragaw, J. G.
Hodges, J. W.
Oden, J. W.
Bridgman, Seth
Harding, Rev. N.
Paul, Tiglman
Blount, John G.
Hoyt, J. K.
Rodman, J. C.
Bonner, H. E.
Howard, T. P.
Shaw, W. W.
Baugham, W. P.
Jackson, J. P.
Singleton, W. D
Campbell, J. S.
Jackson, C. C.
Simpson, A. W.
Dumay, A. M.
Jordan, F. H.
Suskin, L. B.
Eborn, J. D.
Jordan, C. E.
Short, F. H.
Ellis, J. J.
Kugler, F. C.
Sugg, B. F.
Farrow, Joseph A.
Knight, R. A.
Taylor, C. W.
Fisher, T. W.
Lockyer, C. J.
Taylor, D. T.
Guilford, G. W.
Lawson, C. C.
Willis, E. K.
Heptenstall, G. A.
Leans, C. E.
Williams, S. H.
Hoyt, F. W.
Morton, J. C.
Walling, W. B.
Hodges, T. R.
Moss, B. G.
Wahrhaftig, H.
Hocutt, E- J-
Mayo, H. B.
Whetley, W. H.
Harris, J. P.
Mayo, L. R.
George J. Baker, M.
C. H. Roberson, S. W.
Hugh Paul, J. W.
E. W. Ayers, Treas.
R. T. Hodges, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee —
Britt, Rev. D. C.
Bryant, J. Q. A.
Beal, C. D.
Headen, A. G.
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PERQUIMANS LODGE, No. 106 — Hertford.
Regular Communications every Tuesday.
OFFICERS.
C. W. Morgan, M.
J. P. Jessup, S. W.
R. O. Skinner, J. W.
Geo. B. Burgess, Treas.
Jesse Campen, Sec.
Timothy Morgan, S. D
R. A. Perry, J. D.
O. A. Hughes, S.
C. D. White, S.
B. F. Perry, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. A. Chalk, K. R. Elliott, J. T. Wilder.
Anderson, Rev. C. J.
Barns, A. W.
Bateman, Geo. R.
Bunch, L. T.
Copeland, W. W.
Copeland, Hughes
Copeland, RevJ. E-
Cox, Rob. B.
Cox, David
Cohn, B. W.
Campen, Jos. G.
Dail, McL.
Elliott, Rev. Josiah
Elliott, Richard
Elliott, R. D.
MEMBERS.
Flanagan, A. B.
Griffin, H. H.
Hancock, H. S.
Harrell, J. E.
Hays, Wayland
Kohloss, R. A.
Lerry, E- B.
Major, Geo. E.
Macht, H. R.
Macht, H. E.
Morris, J. C.
McMullen, Sidney
McMullen, J. R.
Norman, L. W.
Parrish, J. J.
Parker, J. H.
Parker, J. D.
Perry, J. E.
Rutenberg, Nicholass
Skinner, T. G.
Smith, J. J.
Smith, Robt. W.
Sutton, A. J.
Ward, W. H.
White, Alphonso
Whitehead, P. L.
Williford, C. V.
Walker, H. S.
BELMONT LODGE, No. 108— Faison.
Regular Communications first Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
'jas. D. Ireland, M.
Jas. S, Shine, S. W.
L. W. Hodges, J. W.
B. H. Hatcher, Treas.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Dr. M. Moore,
Hatcher.
MEMBERS.
Moore, Dr. M.
Thos. Perrett, Sec.
W. D. Stevens, J. D.
Jos. S. Hines, Tiler.
L. W. Hodges, B. H.
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FRANKLIN LODGE, No. 109 — Beaufort.
Regular Communications first and third Mondays in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. A. Mace, M.
C. D. Jones, S. W.
H. A. Whitehurst, J. W.
W. A. Pierce, Treas.
J. L. Gibble, Sec.
W. S. Robinson, S. D.
D. M. Jones, J. D.
G. D. Potter, S.
H. H. Hall, S.
W. PI. Hendrick, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — D. M. Jones, S. L. Howland, A. I. Lewis.
Adair, Louis H.
Abenethy, C. L-
Abenethy, E. A.
Bell, B. J.
Becton, P\ S.
Beverage, J. T.
Banks, Joseph
Banks, Jacob
Congleton, B. C.
Caffrey, Jas. S.
Chadwick, Josiah W.
Carrow, N. L-
Clark, F. M.
Devendorf, L. K.
Dill, John A.
Dill, D. W.
Davis, R. E. L.
Duncan, C. L-
Fulcher, C. L.
Gaskill, Wm. H.
Gaskill, J. D.
MEMBERS.
Gutharie, W. H.
Gibble, J. K.
Green, W. A.
Hancock, N. T.
Harris, Martin W.
Harris, Stephen
Howland, S. L-
Howland, L- C.
Hitchcock, F. S.
Herman, Simon
Herman, Louis
Hill, M. A.
Jones, J. B.
Jones, J. F.
King, F. L.
Lewis, A. I.
Lewis, Joseph
Lewis, John E.
Loftin, P. B.
Moore, Tyre
Nelson, Lenard W.
Pierce, David
Pigott, Joseph
Pigott, Elijah S.
Potter, Nathaniel
Potter, W. V. B,
Russell, J. B.
Robenson, Joseph M.
Robenson, W. S., Jr.
Robenson, Jos. P.
Sabeston, Jas. W.
Salter, Charles
Spelman, J. B.
Scheer, H.
Toler, J. N.
Willis, Eugene B.
Willis, Jesten E.
Willis, Louren
Whitehurst, E. C.
Whitehurst, Jas. L.
WAYNE LODGE, No. 112— Goedsboro.
Regular Communications first and third Mondays in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. T. Harrison, M.
F. J. Hage, S. W.
A. C. Davis, J. W.
W. A. J. Peacock, Treas.
T. H. Hill, Sec.
I. J. Harrell, S. D.
R. R. Dempsey, J. D
U. M. Gillikin, S.
E. Epstein, S.
F. Abraham, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — J. H. Hill, A. C. Davis, Jos. Isaacs.
Aaron, Nathan
Aycock, C. B.
Baker, J. B.
Bedford, J. A.
Berke, E.
Best, B. F.
Borst, E. M.
Brinkley, G. W.
Boyette, Frank
Cox, E. W.
Craton, R. W.
Dewey, Chas.
Dobson, J. F.
Edgerton, J. B.
Edwards, E.
Edwards, Satn’l
Edwards, W. L.
Epstein, M. N.
Evans, Frank
Finlayson, W. H.
Fonville, I. B.
Giddens, L. D.
Ginn, J. T.
Ginn, Walter
Gulick, J. W.
MEMBERS.
Gulley, L. D.
Gurley, G. A.
Grainger, C. W.
Ham, Rufus
Harrell, A. J.
Herring, C. F.
Hill, J. F.
Hollowell, W. T.
Holt, C. G.
Holt, R. D.
Horne, W. G.
Howell, L . D.
Humphrey, A. H.
Isaacs, Jos.
Jones, W. J.
Kilwe, L.
King, P. R.
Dachman, L.
Lamb, J. W.
Mayerberg, J. L.
McCowan, W. D.
Michaux, L. M.
Moore, Allen
Morris, J. D.
Morris, J. R.
O’Berry, N.
Parker, W. H.
Pate, W. B.
Pate, W. C.
Pearle, Chas.
Perkins, E.
Peterson, J. E.
Powell, A. S. C.
Pridgen, L. E.
Prichard, G. S.
Robinson, J. J.
Robinson, T. R.
Sasser, G. D.
Shrago, A. M.
Slaughter, Jno.
Smith, J. R.
Smith, R. A.
Strauss, M.
Strouse, A.
Van Hook, W. H.
Whitfield, W. C.
Winslow, A. J.
Winstead, W. H.
Yelverton, W. T.
PERSON LODGE, No. 113 — Roxboro.
Regular Communications second Monday and fourth Tuesday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
J. A. Wise, M.
C. H. Hunter, S. W.
W. R. Hambrick, J. W.
A. J. Hester, Treas.
R. A. Spencer, Sec.
W. H. Murphy, S. D.
W. H. Harris, J. D.
E. J. Pleasants, S.
R. I. Featherston, S.
J. A. Baird, Jr., Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Louis Goodfrend, C. B. Brooks.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
MEMBERS.
Andrews, D. M.
Featherston, R. N.
Sneed, J. M.
Brown, S. Y.
Giles, M. D.
Schaub, O. P.
Barnett, Cam
Hubbard, G. R.
Tucker, J. A.
Brooks, J. L.
Kitchin, W. W.
Tuttle, M. II.
Brewer, R. E-
Lansdell, J. J.
Turner, Daniel
Barnett, S J.
Moore, T. B.
Thomas, G. W.
Bailey, G. A.
Moore, S. S.
Tucker, E- J •
Burton, Henry
Merritt, J. S.
Winstead, C. S.
Duncain, L. P.
Newton, W. I.
Yaucey, J. T.
Field, Henry
Paylor, R. L.
Floyd, J. B.
Reade, W. F.
HOLLY SPRINGS LODGE, No. 115-
-Hoij.v Springs.
Regular Communications Saturday before the
month.
OFFICERS.
fourth Sunday in each
James T. Adams, M.
Thos. A. Council, S. D.
A. M. Johnson, S. W.
W. H. Utley, J. D.
T C. Council, J. W.
T. B. Stephens, S.
I. H. Collins, Treas.
W. W. Utley, S.
C. H. Collins, Sec,
J. G. Langston, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — T. C. Council, W.
MEMBERS.
H. Utley, C. H. Collins.
Blanchard, A. J.
Norris, Rev. H. W.
Stephenson, S. D.
Betts, A. B.
Norris, F. M.
Stephenson, H. E.
Burt, W. H.
Morgan, R. A.
Stephenson, W. D.
Edwards, W. T.
Page, Caswell
Utley, B. S.
Fuquay, Rev. J. W.
Rowland, Bennett
Utley, M. C.
Fuquay, D. H.
Rowland, J. T.
Utley, Rev. C. H.
Langston, I. P.
Rogers, Rev. J. W. F.
Winborn, Jesse
ST. ALBANS LODGE, No. 114 — Lumberton.
Regular Communications first and third Tuesdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
Q. T. Williams, M.
Jno. E- Carlyle, S. W.
C. B. Skipper, J. W.
Jno. T. Briggs, Treas.
C. D. Townsend, Sec.
J. T. Phillips, S. D.
Jno. P. Stansel, J. D.
Joseph Blacker, S.
W. W. Prevatt, S.
A. R. Phillips, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — Frank Gough, Dr. R. T. Allen, John P.
McNeill.
Allen, Dr. R. T.
Blacker, Frank
Britt, S. E.
Beasley, H. T.
Caldwell, R. D.
Duckett, Jno.
Floyd, F. J.
Grimsley, T. L.
MEMBERS.
Godwin, B.
Gough, Frank
Hamer, D. R.
Lee, R. E.
McGeach, N. S.
McNeill, J. P,
Norment, T. A.
Proctor, E. K., Sr.
Proctor, E. K., Jr.
Singeltary, J. R.
Straughn, Z. V.
Thompson, S. A.
Toon, Gen. T. F.
Thompson, N. A.
Townsend, C. B.
MT. LEBANON LODGE, No. 1 17— Wilson.
Regular Communications first and third Mondays in each month.
OFFICERS.
C. E. Blount, M.
C. J. Cate, S. W.
E. B. Mayo, J. W.
S. C. Wells, Treas.
E. G. Peoples, Sec
Orphan Asylum Committee — R. E. Hagan, Chairman; B. W. Hargrave,
Calvin Woodard.
R. E. Hagan, S. D.
D. L. Luper, J. D.
R. E. Hagan, S.
Lat Williams, S.
W. P. Snokenburg, Tiler.
Adams, E. H.
Boykin, W. J.
Bullock, J. D.
Briggs, R. G.
Douglass, J. J.
Davis, F. S.
Davis, J. M.
Elliss, J. T.
Edmundson, J. R.
Estridge, W. M.
Grantham, R. J.
MEMBERS.
Green, Geo. D.
Hodges, Samuel
Hayes, J. W.
Hales, J. C.
Hackney, W. D.
Jackson, H. C.
Kinsey, J. B.
Killett, L. D.
Lipscomb, James
Moore, C. E.
McCraw, J. T.
Rountree, Frank
Ruffin, J. K.
Simms, A. J.
Watson, R. P.
Winstead, G. R.
Webb, W. F.
Woodard, David
Williamson, Isaac
Winstead, F. M.
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MOUNT HERMON LODGE, No 118— Asheviree.
Regular Communications first Thursday in each month.
OFFICERS.
F. T. Merriwether, M.
Jno. B. Shope, S. W.
E. W. Keith, J. W.
Jno. A. Nichols, Treas.
Gilbert H. Morris, Sec.
Thos. A. Jones, S. D
Chas. S. Jordan, J. D
S. J. Cain, S.
J. A. Gorman, S.
A. Michaloo, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Alfred H. Stubbs, Frank M. Weaver, Gil-
bert H. Morris.
Ambler, C. P.
Andrews, J. B.
Alexander, L. B.
Allen, Herbert C.
Arthur, Wm.
Brown, J. V.
Barnett, J. G.
Bean, S I.
Bell, John
Buckner, Neptune
Brown, Frank F.
Brown, Chas. W.
Bostic, J. T.
Brownson, W. C
Burroughs, James A.
Bruton, W. Baxter
Buck, L. W.
Bynum, James T.
Bradford, Geo. E.
Brown, E. E.
Chambers. E- C.
Colvin, J. G.
Craig, Locke
Cortland, J. W.
Cobb, A. H
Cobb, T. H.
Cooper, W. N.
Drakeford, James H.
Donnor, Geo. W.
Dickson, B. Y.
MEMBERS.
Dumphy, James D.
Drakeford, Alvin W.
Davis, Thos. E-
Dickson, H. M.
Duson, W. W.
Fitzpatrick, R. L.
Frances, R. L.
Foster, R. P.
Fagg, H C.
Glenn, Eugene B.
Green, J . M.
Greer, G. A.
Heston, W. R.
Howatt, J. P.
Hugill, H. C.
Hodges, D. M.
Hamrick, G. P.
Hudson, W. C.
Inabinett, S. T.
James, Claybrook
Jenk, A. E.
Johnston, Thos. D.
James, W. A., Jr.
Jacobs, Fred L.
Jones, J. Will
Knight, B. C.
Kilpatrick, W. P.
King, Chas. G.
Luther, D. M.
Lange, J. H.
Lipinsky, S.
Long, M. D.
McKissick, E. P.
Moore, G. W.
Morris, A. E.
Miles, Fred B.
Martin, Julius C.
Miller, Claudius H.
Merrick, Duff
Mims, Jno. A.
Morris, Eugene R.
McOuilkin, A. H.
Moore, Chas. A.
McPherson, J. C.
McClenneghan, S. J.
Neely, Jno. W.
Patterson, A. C.
Pegram, Wm.
Penley, W. P.
Penley, W. K.
Parker, A. L.
Painter, E. E.
Penniman, W. T.
Pearson, Chas. L-
Pelham, J. Wardlaw
Rembough, J. H.
Robertson, Mark W.
Reagan, W. B.
Randolph, Wm. F.
Redfearn, Thos. E-
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Ray, W. W.
Sherrill, R. J.
Schartte, J. W.
Sudderth, James H.
Seely, Fred L.
Smith, T. C.
Smith, R. S.
Sams, L. R.
Sams, A. B.
Sullivan, J. H.
Smith, H. G.
Torrence, J. W.
Tarpley, T. M.
Tennent, S. S.
Treadaway, J. R.
Van Schaick, H. L.
Wagner, Jno. A., Sr.
Weaver, W. T.
Weaver, J no. H.
Woody, J no. H.
Williams, Jno. H.
Worrall, Joseph
Williams, G. W. K.
Williams, Gay M.
Woodcock, Jno. H.
Wills, A. J.
Whitlock, A.
Way, David
Whittington, W. P
Yates, J. J.
FRANKDINTON LODGE, No. 123 — Franklinton.
Regular Communications last Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
A. J. Morton, M.
J. W. House, S. W.
R. O. Pernell, J. W.
T. J. Hight, Treas.
W. D. Spruill, Sec.
J. J. Winston, S. D.
O. D. Burnett, J. D.
G. W. Cattell, S.
A. H. Cattell, S.
B. J. Blackley, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. D. Spruill, D. T. Ward, J. H. Wilder.
MEMBERS.
Brinkley, T. H.
Cates, B.
Conyiers, R. L-
Conyiers, J. H.
Caudell, J.
Gill, E. T.
Holmes, R. R.
Lynum, A. L-
Mitchell, W. H.
Montgomery, W. P.
McGhee, J. H.
McGhee, J. Y.
Stone, F. M.
Staunton, I. G.
Wester, A. B.
Wilder, L. J.
Winston, George
Ward, D. T.
Wilder, J. H.
MILL CREEK LODGE, No. 125— Newton Grove.
Regular Communications first Friday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. H. Hill, M. S. Warren, S. D.
N. W. Smith, S. W. L. B. Cotton, J. D.
B. Hill, J. W. Pery Jorden, S.
T. Williams, Treas. R- W . Smith, Tiler.
A. Lee, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. H. Barefoot, R. W. Smith, P. Jorden.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Britt, E. T.
Creel, B. W.
Hill, William
Jones, G. W.
Lee, J. A.
MEMBERS.
McLamb, C. H.
McPhail, D. C.
Odem, M.
Rainer, C. R.
Rose, E- P.
Rich, E.
Rose, W. N.
Tort, A. D.
Warren, J. E.
Warren, Blake
GATESVILLE LODGE, No. 126— Gatesviele.
Regular Communications first Thursday in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. T. Cross, M.
James Parker, S. W.
J. S. Felton, J. W.
Nathaniel Eure, Treas.
J. A. Eason, Sec.
Jno. Brady, S. D.
A. D. Eure, J. D.
B. F. Wiley, S.
T. R. Eure, S.
W. F. Eason, Tiler.
Brown, T. A.
Crawford, I. W.
Mizzell, D. E.
MEMBERS.
Mullen, Joshua
Riddick, D. E.
Riddick, W. T.
Taylor, W. H.
Wilkins, W. S.
Wolfley, H. A.
BLACKMER LODGE, No. 127— Mt. Gieead.
OFFICERS.
M. T. Harris, Sec.
D. H. Cook, S. D.
W. S. Ingram, J. D.
W. L. Lisk, Tiler.
MEMBERS.
Dunn, James R. Robinson, J. M. Thompson, D. A.
Parker, W. H. Thompson, Martin Scarboro, H. M.
Rev. W. M. Bosick, M.
A. S. McRae, S. W.
John C. McAuloy, J. W.
L- M. Russell, Treas.
HANKS LODGE, No. 128 — Frankeinvieee.
Regular Communications third Saturday in each month, except June
and December, and then on St. John’s Day.
OFFICERS.
L- F. Fentriss, M.
M. L. Burke, S. W.
J. M. Tippett, J. W.
W. D. Manes, Treas.
C. H. Julian, Sec.
W. C. Jones, S. D.
J. H. Fentriss, J. D.
M. W. Free, S.
C. E. Stuart, S.
Jno. W. Craven, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — C. H. juliati, W. D. Manes, R. F. Goolsby.
Allred, J. F.
Brewer, W. H.
Cox, O. R.
Cox, A. F.
Cox, W. C.
Craven, Jas. M.
Goolsby, R. F.
Howard, S. H.
Jordan, James
MEMBERS.
Jennings, A. G.
Jones, Isham
Luther, J. L.
Leonard, Milton
Marble, Jno. P.
Moffitt, H. A.
Moffitt, E. K.
Parks, Hugh, Sr.
Parks, Hugh, Jr.
Russell, W. C.
Russell, M. S.
Slack, T. A.
Tippett, J. W.
Teague, C. H.
Trogdon, G. U.
Webster, W. B.
RADIANCE LODGE, No. 132 — Snow Hill,
officers.
F. L. Carr, M.
T. E. Barrow, S. W.
F. L. Rouse, J. W.
John Sugg, Treas.
W. H. Dail, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Com .
uel McKeel.
Best, H. H.
Carr, T. W.
Dixon, J. T.
Edwards, Thos.
Edwards* B. W.
Grimsley, J. E.
Galloway, Swift
1
ittee — A. H. Johnson,
MEMBERS.
Harper, P. S. B.
Hughes, W. H.
Jordan, W. J.
Lynch, Patrick
Morrell, L. V.
Newell, J. H.
Powell, W. E.
A. S. Wooten, S. W.
J. A. Edwards, J. W.
C. W. B. Aldridge, S.
A. H. Johnson, S.
F. A. Mosely, Tiler.
C. W. B. Aldridge, Sam-
Pope, E.
Randolph, J. T.
Sugg, Arvil
Sugg, J. E. W.
Taylor, Absalom
Worrell, O. F.
MOCKSVILLE LODGE, No. 134 — Mocksville.
Regular Communications third Friday in each month, June 24th and
December 27th.
OFFICERS.
F. M. Johnson, M.
W. A. Owens, S. W.
J. A. Currrent, J. W.
T. B. Bailey, Treas.
B. O. Morris, Sec.
P. O. Stockton, S. D
H. C. Meroney, J. D.
Z. N. Anderson, S.
W. C. Denny, S.
V. E- Swaim, Tiler.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Orphan Asylum Committee — Jacob Stewart, W. H. Smith, A. M. Mc-
Glamery.
Allen, T. C.
MEMBERS.
Flarbin, A. A.
Robertson, C. E.
Bailey, J. H.
Holman, H. C.
Sain, C.
Bernhardt, G. E.
Hopkins, B. L.
Sheets, T. C.
Butler, T. M.
Henley, J. C.
Stewart, A. H.
Cope, P. D.
Idoll, A. J.
Sanford, W. L.
Cope, G. W.
Jones, J. W.
Starrette, W. T.
Coley, W. X.
Jordan, H. H.
Willman, Jerry
Coley, James
Johnston, J. B.
Woodruff, J. I.
Coan, J. F.
Kimbrough, M. D.
Woodruff, S. A.
Currant, R. C.
Orrell, B. C.
Woodruff, W. T.
Crueson, O. E.
Peebles, W. D.
Wilson, W. C.
Ellis, T. J.
Peebles, N. A.
Williams, O. L.
Frost, E.
Pass, E. H.
Wyatt, W. H.
Frost, J. D.
Price, Chas.
Teague, E- M.
Foster, P. L.
Phifer, B. C.
Young, T. M.
Gaither, N. S.
Poindexter, F. T.
LEAKSVILLE LODGE, No. 136 Leaksviele.
Regular Communications Saturday before full moon in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. P. White, M.
J. M. Price, S. W.
R. M. Hopps, J. W.
J. S. Patterson, Treas.
W. T. Breeding, Sec.
W. D. Sherwood, S. D
R V. Osburn, J. D.
L- C. Radford, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. M. Price, W. S. Martin, R. V. Osburn.
Fowler, W. L
Gibson, J. B.
Gillie, W. F.
Johns, A. B.
Kemp, J. F.
Kimp, Peter
MEMBERS.
McAlister, J. S.
Mitchell, Wm.
Martin, W. S.
Neal, J. R.
Neal, J. P.
Slayton, W. J.
Terry, B. K.
Turner, S. A.
Wade, P. D.
Watson, John
Wilson, J. C.
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LINCOLN LODGE, No. 137 — Lincolnton.
Regular Communications first Monday in each, month and Monday of
Court in April and October and on St. John’s Day
in June and December.
OFFICERS.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. C. Tipton, J. E.
nethy.
R. S. Reinhardt, M.
J. E. Love, S. W.
D. A. Yoder, J. W.
R. F. Beal, Treas.
W. M. Sherrill, Sec.
Beal, B. V.
Barr, P. A.
Beam, G. L.
Cline, J. K.
Childs, C. E.
Carpinter, M. M.
Costner, R. E.
Carter, J. S.
Cauble, G. W.
MEMBERS.
Coon, R. C.
Dellinger, C. D.
Fair, W. A.
Hhause, A. J.
Houser, L. J.
Heine, J. B.
Jenks, T. P.
Kiser, W. C.
Knoles, W. C.
H. S. Hyman, S. D.
E. W. Keener, J. D.
J. M. Lackey, S.
D. A. Kelly, S.
L. A. Hoyle, Tiler.
Reinhardt, J. A. Aber-
Noland, W. W.
Nison, A.
Parker, D. F.
Reinhardt, J. F.
Sherrill, S. P.
Saine, S. A.
Wood, J. H.
Wood, B. C.
Wycoff, R. L.
KING SOLOMON LODGE, No. 13S— Burgaw.
Regular Communications second Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
P. Moore, M.
M. M. Moore, S. W.
J. F. Croom, J. W.
J. T. Bland, Treas.
R. W. Collins, Sec.
G. W. Highsmith, S. D
D. M. Murray, J. D.
J. Hearn, S.
J. A. Bradshaw, S.
J. T. Collins, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — M. M. Moore, J. F. Croom, J. T. Bland
Bordeaux, A. D.
Bordeaux, W. T.
Blake, J. G.
Blake, H. C.
MEMBERS.
Croom, A. B.
Croom, W. D.
Croom, R. M.
Lamb, I. H.
Loftin, S. C.
Powers, N. W.
Rivenbark, R. T.
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MT. ENERGY LODGE, No. 140— Mt. Energy.
Regular Communications first Saturday in each month and 27th of
December.
OFFICERS.
R. J. Jeffreys, M.
J. E. Purgoson, S. W.
J. W. Mangum, J. W.
S. D. Bragg, Treas.
W. F. Sanford, Sec.
I. J. O’Dear, S. W.
L. R. Hayes, J. D.
R. G. Fuller, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — I. J. O’Dear, J. D. Haithcock, L. R. Hayes.
Averett, A. E-
Cash, J. P.
Chappell, D. C.
Fuller, W. N.
Fowler, M.
MEMBERS.
Harris, W. N.
Haithcock, J. D.
Jones, B.
Jones, J. W.
Jones, W. M.
Lawrence, E. B.
Lawrence, T. B.
Lawrence, J. W.
Overton, A. H.
CAROLINA LODGE, No. 141 — Ansonville.
Regular Communications Friday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS
J. G. Keelyn, M.
J. T. Gaddy, S. W.
J. C. Goodman, J. W.
W. C. Staton, Treas.
MEMBERS.
Dunlap, J. M. Ingram, H. M, Martin, C. H.
Dabbs, V. Ledbetter, C. B. Staton, B. F.
Godwin, V.
I. H. Sullivan, Sec.
D. Handcock, S. D.
J. T. Beechum, J. D.
MT. VERNON LODGE, No. 143— Ore Hill.
Regular Communications Thursday before the first Sunday and Satur-
day before the third Sunday in each month.
officers.
R. M. Gorrell, M.
J. C. Adcock, S. W.
N. H. Heritage, J. W.
J. M. Foust, Treas.
R. W. White, Sec.
C. C. Cheek, S. D.
0. B. Stroud, J. D.
1. H. Dunlop, S.
L. M. Stout, S.
T. M. Adcock, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — J. M. Foust, I. H. Dunlop, L. M. Stout,
Burke, W. C.
Brooks, J. R.
Edwards, J. M
Evans, J J.
Gorrell, L. F.
MEMBERS.
Gilbert, A. P.
Grosse, John W.
Harden, P. M.
Hay, Thomas
Hooker, J. J.
Lane, W. P.
Lawhorn, W. H.
Stone, N. S.
Tillmon, A. W.
JUNALUSKEE LODGE, No. 145— Franklin.
Regular Communications first and third Tuesdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
F. S. Johnston, M.
Lee Crawford, S. W
J. G. Siler, J. W.
T. W. Porter, Treas.
W. A. Curtis, Sec.
Sam L. Kelly, S. D.
J. D. Mallonee, J. D.
W. A. Rogers, S.
Jno. S. Trotter, S.
W. R. Stallcup, Tiler,
Orphan Asylum Committee — F. T. Smith, E- H. Franks, W. D. Billings.
Allen, M. C.
Allen, H. E.
Allman, W. C.
Anderson, H. L.
Ashe, I. J.
Baird, Zebulon
Barnard, N. L.
Billings, M. D.
Boyer, W. I.
Brabson, A. C.
Bristol, T. J.
Caldwell, M. C.
Carpenter, W. I.
Cook, J. A.
Cunningham, J. B.
Cunningham, E- K.
Deal, J. A.
Franks, E. H.
MEMBERS.
Garland, D. L.
Harrison, J. O.
Higdon, W. H.
Higdon, T. B.
Higdon, W. L.
Hyatt, R. B.
Ingram, C. L-
Kelly, M. L.
Kilpatrick, D. N.
Kimsey, E. L-
Johnston, J.
Johnston, T. J.
Jones, Geo. A.
Lyle, S. H.
Lyle, Daniel
Morrison, Jas. R.
Munday, A. P.
Munday, T. S.
Norton, Sam H.
Patton, Geo. R.
Poindexter, Frank
Porter, R. L.
Porter, Stephen
Porter, Jas. A.
Roane, C. T.
Robertson, H. G.
Rogers, Sam L.
Siler, Will P.
Siler, F. L.
Slagle, C. W.
Smith, C. C.
Smith, F. T.
Trotter, H. G.
White, T. B.
Wright, Jno. C.
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CHEROKEE LODGE, No. 146— Murphy.
Regular Communications first Monday in each month.
OFFICERS.
A. A. Fain, M.
C.
E. Wood, S. D.
W. H. Woodbury, S. W. A.
J. Gurley, J. D.
D. W. Deweese, J. W.
J-
V. Brittain, S.
E. B. Norvell, Treas.
Wm. West, S.
W. S. Green, Sec.
G.
L- D. McLelland, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — F. P. Axley, S. W. Davidson, L. E. Mau-
ney.
MEMBERS.
Axley, A. W
Gilbert, L. P.
Meroney, J. S.
Akin, R. A.
Griffeth, Wm.
Meroney, B. B.
Akin, S. D.
Gentry, P. C.
Mayfield, Chas.
Abernathy, J. F.
Hyatt, N. N.
Patterson, R. L.
Baker, W. H.
Harshaw, A. McD.
Patterson, J. T.
Brittain, M. L.
Hayes, J. T.
Posey, Ben
Bates, T. N.
Hill, A. S.
Roane, R. J.
Cooper, R. L.
Hughes, S. H.
Starnes, Frank
Campbell, A. A.
King, M. C.
Sword, P. H.
Crawford, W. R.
King, J. W.
Smathers, J. L.
Cunningham, A. F.
Leatherwood, J. M.
Tayler, James
Deweese, N. Z.
Lovingood, W. B.
Tathem, J. G.
Elliott, H. B.
McLelland, J. R.
Woods, Jno. H.
Farmer, W. P.
Martin, 0. G.
Vaughn, J M.
Farmer, S. F.
PALMYRA LODGE, No. 147
— Dunn.
Regular Communications third Saturday and first Friday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. W. Bass, M.
W. A. Johnson, S. D.
G. E. Prince, S. W.
E. A. Jones, J. D.
L. P. Jernigan, J. W.
G. A. Johnson, S.
J. J. Wade, Treas.
W. H. Lucas, S.
J. G. Johnson, Sec.
I. W. Taylor, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Rev. B. B. Holder, G. A. Johnson, O. M.
Johnson.
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Allen, W. H.
Barefoot, E.
Creel, N. T.
Ellis, G. W.
Gregory, Jno. N.
Goodwin, Dr. J. C.
MEMBERS.
Godwin, H. L.
Jones, J. M.
Jordan, C. W.
Jackson, S. D.
Lane, W. H.
Moore, Dr. F. T.
Owens, Rev. J. F.
Sexton, Dr. C. H.
Stewart, W. A.
Taylor, Z
Tew, L. B.
Waddell, W. B.
ADONIRAM LODGE, No. 149— Adoniram.
Regular Communications Saturday before the second Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
J. R. Hart, M.
Dr. G. S. Watkins, S. W.
J. N. Watkins, J. W.
J. A. Watkins, Treas.
M. S. Daniel, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. B.
J. T. Hart, S. D.
L. S. Elliott, J. D.
J. B. Elliott, S.
R. T. Pittard, S.
H. A. Hart, Tiler.
rt, G. S. Watkins, J. N. Watkins.
Batterhill, J. D.
Devin, R. I.
Daniel, N. C.
Daniel, W. C.
Drewry, F. D.
Hart, R. S.
Hester, F. B.
Hutson, O. S.
members.
Jones, H. S.
Fraizer, T. F.
Lloyd, R. B.,
Pool, E. Y.
Pittard, T.
Overby, T. J.
Rhodes, J. W.
Ramsy, J. D.
Sanford, W. A.
Winston, D. W.
Watkins, S. W.
Watkins, W. D.
Watkins, J. S.
Wilkerson, C. B
CHALMERS LODGE, No. 151 — Carbonton.
Regular Communications Saturday nearest full moon in each month.
officers.
George Willcox, M.
J. P. Gilliam, S. W.
J. J. Burns, J. W.
J. W. Gilliam, Treas,
J. F. Gilliam, Sec.
W. T. Gilliam, S. D.
Alex Oldham, J. D.
C. H. Womble, S.
W. M. Jeffers, S.
John L. Coggin, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. P. Gilliam, C. H. Womble, J. J. Burns.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
MEMBERS.
Andrews, W. H.
Jones, J. H.
Palmer, Dr. G. G.
Allred, E. H.
Jones, A. J.
Phillips, W. B.
Bemer, J. H.
Jones, C. A.
Street, Dr. M. E.
Cheek, J. J.
Jones, Allen, Jr.
Shields, Casander
Davis, R. H.
Murchison, 0. B.
Taylor, R. W.
Ellis, John W.
Nall, I. L.
Taylor, J. J.
Jones, John R.
Oldham, W. T.
Cole, George.
WHITE STONE LODGE, No. 155-
— Waicefieed.
Regular Communications fourth Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. H. Hester, M.
Wren Tisdale, S. D.
T. L. Honeycutt, S. W
W. E. Weathers, J. D
E. H. Kemp, J. W.
J. A. Kemp, S.
C. D. Bunn, Treas.
J. H. Cheaves, S.
W. P. Robertson, Sec.
MEMBERS.
J H. Batton, Tiler.
Alford, M. A.
Joyner, L. H.
Philops, W. K.
Bell, G. M.
Lowery, A. B.
Privett, Riley
Coppage, G. W.
Liles, Burbon
Pippin, C. J.
Hester, J. W.
Morris, J. R.
Underhill, A. J.
ROLESVILLE LODGE, No. 156-
-ROLESVILEE.
Regular Communications first Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
Dr. L. B. Young, M.
N. T. Medlin, S. D.
J. T. Weathers, S. W.
W. W. Rogers, J. D.
Mart Pearce, J. W.
J. P. Stell, S.
J. D. Peebles, Treas.
W. B. Bowling, S.
E. C. Allen, Sec.
W. T. Williams, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — S. W. Terrell, J- M
. Jones, W. T. Williams.
MEMBERS.
Ellis, C. R.
Kelly, Daniel
Riggins, D. R.
Daniel, Zack
Massey, T. H.
Scarborough, J. H.
Fleming, J. M.
O’Neal, W. P.
Stell, J. A.
Horton, C. H.
Pulley, -W. A.
Watkins, John
Hodges, W. T.
Jones, T. S.
Redford, W. E.
Watkins, J. R.
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MT. PLEASANT LODGE, No. 157— Rogers’ Store.
Regular Communications Saturda}' before the first Sunday in each
month and June 24th.
OFFICERS.
C. P. Hester, M.
L. A. Wilson, S. W.
J. D. R. Allen, J. W.
W. L. Bledsoe, Treas
G. C. Bledsoe, Sec.
W. D. Peed, S. D.
I. L. B. Penny, J. D.
W. D. Ray, S.
J. M. Adams, S.
Elihu Sater, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Co,
Nichols.
Atkinson, J. W.
Allen, W. G.
Blackley, C. R.
Ball, H. A.
Ferguson, Anderson
Gooch, R. H. D.
Hutchinson, J. H.
Harrison, C. T.
mittee — G. C. Bledsoe,
MEMBERS.
Jackson, W. L.
King, A. F.
Lawrence, B. F.
Lowery, A. G.
Lowery, J. S.
Lynn, J. M.
Lyon, W. R.
Moore, D. K.
J. W. Patterson, J. C.
Peed, Dudley
Pollard, John
Penny, J. H.
Penny, J. A. J.
Penny, J. J.
Ray, W. P.
Woodlief, Jonah
KNAP OF REEDS LODGE, No. 158 — Knap of Reeds.
Regular Communications Saturday before the fourth Sunday in each
month and St. John’s Day in June and December.
W. L. Umstead, M.
L. A. Wilkins, S. W.
W. H. Hall, J. W.
C. J. Roberts, Treas.
Pervis Tilley, Sec.
OFFICERS.
J. W. Williams, S. D.
E. B. Cozart, J. D.
M. W. B. Veazey, S.
W. L. Roberts, S.
Samuel Thomasson, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — E. B. Cozart, M. W. B. Veazey, Pervis
Tilley.
MEMBERS.
Bobbitt, N. T.
Bowling, E. H.
Bowen, J. R.
Carver, W. T.
Crabtree, C. E
Eastwood, C. L.
Goss, S. N.
Hall, J. L.
Mashburn, H. H.
Oakley, W. J.
Peed, W. C.
Roberts, A. J.
Smith, N. B.
Smith, T. J.
Tilley, A. W.
Tilley, Coran
Tilley, Banam
Thomasson, J. E-
Ward, M. P.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
YADKIN LODGE, No. 162 — YadkinvigeE.
Regular Communications Saturday after the full moon in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. L. Macy, M.
W. H. Lynch, S. W.
J. R. Reece, J. W.
S. H. Dinkins, Treas.
S. H. Allgood, Sec.
F. M. Dunner, S. D
J. A. Logan, J. D.
A. Douglas, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. L. Macy, W. H. Lynch, J. R. Reece.
members.
Bovender, W. E-
Douglass, H. W.
Douglass, Geo. W.
Gough, J. E.
Hoots, J. A.
Hoots, Daniel
Hamlin, J. D.
Holton, A. E.
Harding, T. R
Kelly, W. L.
Long, John
May, N. S. C.
Martin, W. L.
Russell, J. C.
Shores, Benj.
Shores, John, Sr.
Shermer, Perry
Sprinkle, Hugh
Taylor, J. J.
Wooten, M. H.
Wilson, T. C.
DEEP RIVER LODGE, No. 164 — Cogeridge.
Regular Communications Saturday before full moon in each month
and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
R. L. Caveness, M.
J. S. Cox, S. W.
H. F. Brown, J. W.
Jas. A. Cole, Treas.
A. H. Caveness, Sec
S. L. Hogworth, S. D.
Thos. Davis,- J. D.
C. H. Welch, S.
W. F. Bray, S.
G. H. Lambert, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — B. Y. Craven, W. L. Perry, J, S. Cox.
MEMBERS.
Brown, J. M. Lambert, D. H., Jr. Perry, W. L-
Lambert, J. L. Marley, W. H. Siler, D. U.
ARCHER LODGE, No. 165— Archer.
Regular Communications first Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. R. Barnes, M.
J. T. Barnes, S. W.
J. R. Hood, J. W.
J. W. Barnes, Treas.
J. E. Winston, Sec.
William Earp, S. D.
Harris Eason, J. D.
J. D. Eason, S.
W. E. Pulley, S.
Jas. L. Smith, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — J. W. Barnes, R. A. Wall, W. W. Kemp.
Atkinson, E- S.
Barnes, D. L.
Brannan, J. H.
Batton, Wiley
Barham, S. T.
Barnes, H. L.
Batton, N. R.
Barham, J. H.
Boyett, J. H.
Christman, R. R., Jr.
Creech, J. Leroy
Clarron, Ivey
Creech, Chas.
Corbett, J. E.
Corbett, C. A.
Eason, Kerney
Eason, Turner
Earp, Geo. C.
MEMBERS.
Eason, J. A.
Ellis, J. T.
Eason, J. D.
Flowers, A. R.
Glover, J. H.
Griswold, Floyd
Gattis, R. E.
Hatcher, B. W.
Hinton, W. T.
Hocutt, I. W.
Hocutt, A. B.
Honeycutt, W. E.
Hocutt, J. W.
Jeffreys, J. D.
Jones, Jas. L.
Kemp, C. S.
Maiden, J. A.
Maotine, George
Murphy, J. I.
Marshburn, D. C.
Narron, W. G.
Narron, Troy
Narron, H. J.
Pucket, J. E.
Richardson, E. V.
Richardson, R. E.
Richardson, C. W.
Reaves, Jas. R.
Smith, L. C.
Smith, W. J.
Seawell, F. H.
Shepherd, E. R.
Whitley, F. B.
Whitley, J. B.
WINSTON LODGE, No. 167 — Winston-Salem.
Regular Communications second Monday in each month.
OFFICERS.
E. W. O’Hanlon, M.
J. H. Foote, Jr., S. W.
R. H. Jones, J. W.
Phillip Hanes, Treas.
Chas. C. Vaughan, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Fred G. Schaum,
Norfleet.
Axum, W. E.
Alspaugh, J. W.
Brown, H. A.
Bool, G. W.
Bessent, J. C.
Blair, W. A.
Bailey, M. D.
Barnes, J. W.
MEMBERS.
Brown, F. C.
Booze, T.
Blackburn, J. G.
Brock, W. E.
Bitting, B. L.
Browder, D. H.
Bodenhamner, M. J.
Crawford, J. K.
O. B. Eaton, S. D.
W. J. Roberts, J. D.
D. H. Browder, S.
Geo. S. Norfleet, S.
H. C. McAden, Tiler.
P. A. Wilson, Jas. K.
Christain, C. N.
Crutchfield, P. W.
Crutchfield, F. G.
Caldwell, R. E.
Cromer, S. W.
Clark, W. H.
Clayton, J. W.
Dalton, R. E.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Dalton, R. I.
Dalton, W. E.
Dalton, T. A.
Dalton, C. F.
Douglas, J. B.
Franklin, W. E.
Farrow, T. D.
Fulp, E.
Foltz, H. W.
Frank, J. W.
Hargrove, A. H.
Hough, S. E.
Hauser, A. J.
Hine, G. C.
Hasten, J. R.
Hanes, P. H.
Hutchins, J. O.
Grimes, T. W.
Griffith, J. W.
Grubbs, R. W.
Jones, E- L-
Jones, E. B.
Johnson, T. R.
Jacobs, J.
Jenkins, C. A.
Johnson, Eugene
Kester, D. E.
Lamb, S. J.
Lyle, J. H.
Ludlow, J. L.
Laugenour, J. D.
Miller, J. F.
Marler, W. H.
Miller, Jas.
Martin, Jas.
Mast, L. P.
Miller, W. H.
Miller, P. A.
Miller, J. Felix
Mclver, C. D.
McArthur, R. M.
Norfleet, R. C.
Nading, R. W.
Nichols, J. H.
Ogburn, C. J.
Ogburn, S. A.
Ogburn, M. L.
Oliver, N. R.
Poindexter, W. H.
Peddicord, H. A.
Page, J. H.
Riggs, Jesse
Rich, E. D.
Riggins, H. L-
Reed, E. L.
Ruffin, J. R.
Reynolds, R. J.
Spaugh, Edward
Stockton, N. G.
Stockton, M. D.
Sharp, Calvin
Sheppard, J. W.
Sheppard, J. R.
Shaw, Henry
Standfield, J. B.
Scales, Jas.
Sink, W. L.
Spach, J. C.
Spencer, W. O.
Smith, P. C.
Smith, S. H.
Summers, C. L.
Tavis, C. H.
Transau, R. E.
Taylor, R. C.
Taylor, S. H.
Thomas, DeLos
Thomas, H.
Thompson, V. O.
Vaughn, T. L.
Womack, R. A.
Walker, J. R.
West, W. W.
Wall, J. A.
Wilkinson, W. A.
White, J. S.
Wilson, N. S.
Whitaker, W. A.
Watkins, W. H.
Watkins, J. Conrad
Zeiglar, J. T.
BLACKMER LODGE, No. 170 — Weavervilee.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before the full moon and
June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
T. H. Weaver, M.
W. B. Weaver, S. W.
J. S. Coleman, J. W.
J. A. Reagan, Treas.
J. H. Wright, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — C. P.
J. L- Weaver, S. D.
C. P. West, J. D.
J. B. Garrison, S.
R. P. Brittain, S.
A. S. Weaver, Tiler.
West, W. B. Weaver, J. H. Wright.
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Auston, O. T.
Boyd, H. M.
Cairns, John
Chambers, J. G.
Clark, W. E.
Cosby, J. M.
Coleman, T. W.
Eller, J. A.
Jump, A. A.
Lee, J. W.
Lotspeich, J. B.
MEMBERS.
Lusk, V. S.
Mitchell, W. A.
Moore, James
Nelson, W. A.
Penland, W. A.
Reagan, J. J.
Roberts, A. M.
Roberts, J. M. F.
Robinson, Z. V.
Robinson, G. M.
Rogers, J. Z. T
Rogers, A. N.
Taylor, J. R.
Taylor, R. M.
Weaver, R. H.
Weaver, A. F.
Weaver, J. B.
Weaver, W. H.
WTebster, W. A
Weaver, C. P.
POLLOKSVILLE. LODGE, No. 175 — Polloksville.
Regular Communications second Wednesday in each month and June
24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
F. Foy, M.
F. Wilcox, S. W.
Dr. G. R. Hughes, J.
J. W. Shepard, Treas
J. N. Foscue, Sec.
Askew, A. W.
Barrow, A. P.
Bynum, Lewis
Barr us, I. H.
Collins, I. W.
Dixon, Rev. Joseph
W.
MEMBERS.
Foscue, Cyrus
Foy, W. F.
Henderson, B. F.
Henderson, T. B.
Hadnot, C. F.
Harrett, M. N.
Samuel Hudson, S. D.
R. N. White, J. D.
Jas. F. White, S.
S. J. Hudson, S.
C. H. Foy, Tiler.
Humphrey, W. R.
Hurst, R. K.
Koonce, Dr. S. E.
Parker, Jno. C.
Smith, Geo. W.
Ward, Dr. E- W.
GEORGE WASHINGTON LODGE, No. 174— Bell’s X Roads.
Regular Communications Saturday before the fourth Sunday in each
month and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
S. G. Wilson, M.
S. M. Beckwith, S. W.
Wiley Goodwin, J. W.
J. E. Johnson, Treas.
O. P. Sugg, Sec.
J. A. Stone, S. D.
W. S. Webster, J. D.
W. F. Wynn, S.
M. D. Williams, S.
Rev. W. L. Pope, Tiler,
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. A. Stone, Dr. C. N. Roberson, Cad
Upchurch.
Atwater, John W.
Bryan, A. J.
Eubanks, S.
Johnson, Alfred
MEMBERS.
Mulholland, H.
Olive, Rev. W. S.
Riggsbee, J. M.
Roberson, Dr. C. N.
Upchurch, B. F.
Wilson, A. J.
SILOAM LODGE, No. 178— Harreee’s Store.
Regular Communications Thursday before fourth Sunday in each
month and June 24th and December 27th.
OEEICERS.
Maury Ward, M.
N. F. Highsmith, S. W.
J. L. Jones, J. W.
A. F. Jones, Treas.
MEMBERS.
Black, D. J. Boone, J. W.
Bland, B. F. Lewis, J. F.
Bland, Harmon
D. F. Colwell, Sec.
W. J. Fryar, S. D.
H. W. Moore, J. D
Love Jones, Tiler.
Moore, H. W.
Ward, A. C.
CARTHAGE LODGE, No. 181 — Carthage.
Regular Communications first Tuesday in each month.
OFFICERS.
Union L- Spence, M.
R. A. Hunnycutt, S. W.
John W. Jackson, J. W.
H. J. Muse, Treas.
W. H. W'ebster, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — R.
Petty, Jr.
S. M. Jones, S. D.
W. C. Petty, Jr., J. D.
A. H. McNeill, S.
J. F. Cole, S.
S. G. Holleman, Tiler.
A. Hunnycutt, L. R. Ritter, W. C.
members.
Clarke, A. M.
Carter, W. G.
Dobbs, Chas. Holt
Humber, S. W.
Hayes, Wm.
Jones, John
Jones, W. T.
Kenedy, John H
Mclver, Jas. D.
McDonald, D. A.
McIntosh, A. L.
Moore, John
McIntosh, C. M.
Ritter, L. R.
Seawell, J. P.
Tyson, L. P.
Tally, E. M.
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SANDY CREEK DODGE, No. 185— Laurel.
Regular Communications on first Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
C. E. Gupton, M.
E. A. Burnett, S. W.
A. H. Baker, J. W.
James Brewer, Treas.
H. D. Egerton, Sec.
A. B. Perry, S. D.
E- M. Gupton, J. D.
J. H. Eaves, S.
G. R. Andrews, S.
W. A. Burnett, Tiler
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. J. Allen, J. H. Eaves, J. L. Jackson.
Andrews, W. H.
Andrews, J. A.
Allen, J. J.
Allen, L. L.
Alston, C. J.
Aycock, G. B.
Beasley, J. O.
Breedlove, G. W.
Byram, J. L.
Benton, J. D.
Crowder, H. V.
Clarke, W. T.
Collins, B. B.
Champion, J. M.
Duke, Rev. G. M.
MEMBERS.
Davis, J. C.
Davis, J. P.
Dement, Albert
Ellington, C. B.
Ellington, E. G.
Fuller, D. T.
Gupton, W. T.
Gupton, J. W.
Gupton, S. T.
Green, I. M.
Hollingsworth, T. A.
Harper, J. H.
Inscoe, B. C.
Jones, E. C.
Jackson, J. L.
May, Rev. G. W.
Merrett, C. S.
Malone, C. D.
Nichols, J. C.
Pearce, Sylvanas
Strickland, R. H.
Swanson, E. T.
Tharington, D. C.
Williams, W. K. A.
Williams, R T.
Williams, L. N.
Wester, T. C.
Wester, J. H.
Yarborough, David
PINE FOREST LODGE, No. 186— Harrington.
Regular Communications first
. and
W. G. McLeod, M.
Thos. A. Harrington, S. W.
D. McC. Harrington, J. W.
B. F. McLeod, Treas.
Hugh McLean, Sec.
Saturday in each month and J une 24th
December 27th.
OFFICERS.
Byrd, J. A.
McDairmid, Archd.
McDonald, C. C.
McDougald, Dr. J. A.
MEMBERS.
McFarland, M. A.
McLeod, John
McLeod, Neill
McLeod, M. A.
J. W. Wood, S. D.
M. D. McLeod, J. D.
W. H. Holder, S.
J. B. F. Stewart, S.
W. A. Buie, Tiler.
McLeod, William
Morris, J. D.
Sloan, J. R.
Woodell, William
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CENTRAL CROSS LODGE, No. 187— Hunt’s.
Regular Communications second Saturday in each month and Decem-
ber 27th.
OFFICERS.
G. A. Wheless, M.
H. A. Hines, S. W.
Calvin Benton, J. W.
I. E. Matthews, Treas.
W. F. May, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. F. May, I. E.
Benton, A. C.
Bass, J. J.
Edwards, Q. R.
Faulk, B. R.
Gay, Albert
Hopkins, Whilmet
Hopkins, Joseph
Hollingsworth, J. H.
MEMBERS.
Harris, M. W.
Lamm, W. P.
Lamm, William
Lamm, Jacob
Marshborne, G. R.
Merriotte, W. H.
Murray, J. J.
J. R. Alford, S. D.
G. W. Mitchel, J. D.
Alonzo Lloyd, S.
Z. T. Strickland, S.
W. W. Hines, Tiler.
Matthews, H. A. Hines.
Moore, E. W.
Moore, N. C.
Rains, Monroe
Rice, Geraldius
Strickland, J. D.
Sledge, Alfred
Valentine, J. W.
FAIR BLUFF LODGE, No. 190— Fair Bluff.
Regular Communications second Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
A. C. Oliver, M.
J. D. Rogers, S. W.
J. B. Waddell, J. W.
B. A. Anderson, Treas.
J. P. Waddell, Sec.
Orphan, Asylum Committee — J. A. Smith, B.
MEMBERS.
Byrd, R. J.
Byrd, J. F.
Byrd, Wm.
Brown, F. K.
Davenport, W. L.
Godwin, J. H.
McGougan, Dr. J. M.
Gibbons, J. N.
Hilton, H. J.
Hutchison, T. W.
Hatcher, R. H.
Johnson, J. E.
Kelly, D. F.
Lawson, E. D.
Meares, E. D.
Meares, W. E-
W. D Pridgen, S. D
C. C. Jirnegan, J. D
S. H. Anderson, S.
H. Barnes, S.
N. L. Bullard, Tiler.
A. Anderson, H. Barnes.
Martin, C. B.
Murray, J. P.
Parnell, A. D.
Page, F. D.
Scott, S. D.
Smith, J. A.
Shaw, D. M.
Tyler, D.
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GRANITE LODGE, No. 191— Clayton.
Regular Communications second Monday in each month, quarterly on
third Saturday.
OFFICERS.
D. H. Williams, M.
M. H. Jones, S. W.
J. H. Johnson, J. W.
E- L- Hinton, Treas.
Will H. McCullers, Sec.
M. M. Gulley, S. D.
D. L. Jones, J. D.
Ed. Smith, S.
A. S. Poole, S.
G. H. Brinkley, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Dr. J. B. Robertson, Dr. J. A. Griffin.
Barnes, W. A.
Barbour, D. L.
Berman, A. W.
MEMBERS.
Harrison, J. R.
Jones, Jno. C.
Jones, J. H.
Phillips, Jno. D.
Thurston, Doc. J.
Weeks, E- M.
BURNSVILLE LODGE, No. 192 — Burnsville.
Regular Communications second Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. Bis Ray, M. E. F. Watson, S. D.
I. A. Bradshaw, S. W. J. D. Briggs, J. D.
J. M. Farchilds, J. W. N. V. Styles, S.
G. D. Ray, Treas. A. J. Nonly, S.
J. C. Hutchins, Sec. N. A. McIntosh, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. Bis Ray, I. A. Bradshaw, J. M. Far-
childs.
Anderson, W. H.
Banks, W. B.
Byrd, M. C.
Brinkley, J. M.
Bryant, S. J.
Dale, James
Furgason, J. M.
Franklin, S. A.
Gillespie, L. D.
Horton, J. P.
Higgins, J. W.
Hensley, W. E.
Horton, J. Y.
MEMBERS.
Hyatt, Jason
Hutchins, W. W.
Higgins, G. W.
Higgins, J. H.
Hurst, J. W.
Hensley, J. W.
Hutchins, J. M.
Listenbear, C. C.
McMahon, S. G.
McPeeters, T. C.
Monly, John
Nonly, M. F.
Phillips, Will
Peterson, J. C.
Peuland, J. R.
Robinson, M. B.
Roland, T. F.
Riddle, B. B.
Roland, G. G.
Rathboue, H. C.
Rice, W. R.
Silver, A. B.
Wilson, J. G.
Young, M . F.
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MOUNT OLIVET LODGE, No. 195— Erect.
Regular Communications Saturday after full moon in each month.
4
OFFICERS.
W. L- Stutts, M.
W. W. Baldwin, S. W.
Z. T. Bird, J. W.
J. M. Yow, Treas.
W. W. Lowdermilk, Sec.
J. G. Yow, S. D.
P. S. Beam, J. D
T. M. Baldwin, S
A. L. King, S.
MEMBERS.
Baldwin, A. M. Leach, D. B.
Cole, J. E. Sugg, L. O.
Shields, Martin
Tysor, C. M.
CARY LODGE, No. 198— Cary.
Regular Communications third Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. M. Templeton, M.
T. J. Harrison, S. W.
W. H. Atkins, J. W.
J. W. Creel, Treas.
J. C. Walker, Sec.
W. H. F. Branch, S. D
R. J. Harrison, J. D.
T. F. Wilkinson, S. ■
J. P. Massey, S.
J. L. Stephens, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — T. F. Wilkinson, J. P. Massey, Jno. W.
Creel.
MEMBERS.
Booker, A. B.
Guess, H. P.
Jones, R. H.
Jordon, H. B.
King, Sidney
Sorrell, W . M
CLEVELAND LODGE, No. 202— Sheeby.
Regular Communications Friday before full moon in each month and
June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
S. E. Gidney, M.
S. A. Washburn, S. W.
J. D. Lineberger, J. W.
S. J. Green, Treas.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W.
Turner.
T. K. Barnett, Sec.
J. F. Roberts, S. D.
W. H. Jennings, S.
J. B. Cabaness, Tiler.
H. Jennings, C. M. Webb, W. B.
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Austell, J. H.
Babington, B. B.
Beam, E. M.
Babington, J. P.
Bridges, J. M.
Baker, D. M.
Babington, W. D.
Beam, Geo. L.
Champion, C. O.
Dixon, Thos.
Doggett, M. W.
Damron, W. L-
Doggett, C. R.
Dycus, W. E.
Eskridge, T. C.
Ellis, R. C.
Eaker, A. P.
Earl, W. D.
Favell, S. P.
Green, J. H.
Gaffney, J. F.
Gibbons, P. M.
MEMBERS.
Gladden, W. A.
Grigg, M. A.
Holland, T. J.
Hord, A. T.
Humphries, S. R.
Hamrick, M. IS .
Hendrick, F. V.
Hamrick, B. E.
Hauser, C. J.
Hord, J. M.
Irvin, A. C.
Jenkins, A. C.
Jones, N. L.
Kennedy, Samuel
Kendale, B. D.
Kendrick, N. B.
Lattimore, T. D.
Moore, G. W.
Mauney, R. T.
McBrayer, R. B
McBrayer, T. E.
McMurry, J. J.
Mitcalf, L. H.
Mettay, T. W.
Patterson, L. H.
Putman, C. S.
Roberts, W. J.
Rudasill, M. E.
Roberts, C. C.
Suttle, A. B.
Wells, R. Y.
Wray, J. S.
Wood, W. S.
Wray, W. A.
Weathers, W. Y
Wilson, H. D.
Wesson, W. A.
Webber, D. G.
Lineberger, J. W., Sr.
Lineberger, J. W., Jr.
Martin, J. A.
Miller, R. B.
Mauney, M. M.
ROANOKE LODGE, No. 203 — Weldon.
Regular Communications first Tuesday in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. B. Tillery, M.
T. L. Emry, S. W.
C. B. Coles, J. W.
J. T. Evans, Treas.
M. S. Montcastle, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. T. Whitfield,
Jones, Jr.
Bradshaw, W. J .
Campbell, R. L.
Clark, E. T.
Collier, J. B.
Cooper, H. S. S.
MEMBERS.
Daniel, R. T.
Driscoll, D. L.
Ellis, W. D.
Harvey, H. L.
Hart, W. R.
F. W. Garrett, S. D.
A. L. Robertson, J. D
T. M. House, S.
J. S. Turner, S.
T. W. Russell, Tiler.
F. W. Garrett, W. D
Harris, H. Y.
House, T. M.
Goode, Sedden
Green, G. W.
Ingram, F. A.
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Jenkins, W. W.
Joyner, L. L.
Judkins, J. L.
Jones, W. D., Jr.
Lee, J. B.
Lineburg, Win.
Loftin, Floyd
Mims, H. A.
Musgrove, J. A.
Moody, H. B.
Moore, F. M.
Overstreet, W. T.
Taylor, T. H.
Turner, J. S.
Thomason, J. V.
Whitfield, W. T.
Wiggins, W. W.
Zollicoffer, D. B.
BEREA LODGE, No. 204 — BEREA..
Regular Communications Saturday before the second Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
M. Blalock, M.
B. D. Howard, S. W.
A. L. Gooch, J. W.
Dr. E. B. Meadows, Treas.
A. F. Smith, Sec.
W. A. McFarland, S. D
R. T. Slaughter, J. D.
T. L Daniel, S.
Dr. J. C. Bradsher, S.
R. L. Clark, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. S. Lyon, S. O. Terry, T. F. Franklin.
MEMBERS.
Allen, W. T.
Allen, S. H.
Adcock, C. J.
Blalock, Rev. J. G.
Clement, T. D
Daniel, J. L-
Frazier, A. D.
Hobgood, R. W.
Hobgood, W. B.
Jones, Samuel H.
Mangum, W. C.
McFarland, W H
McFarland, R. A,
Newton, J. R.
Parker, G. W.
Slaughter, J. M.
Slaughter, J. W.
Sherman, Alfred
Thomas, W. L.
Tingen, J. C.
Wheeler, D. W.
LONG CREEK LODGE, No. 205 — Bristow.
Regular Communications second and fourth Saturdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
T. M. McCoy, M.
A. J. Kerns, S. W.
R. F. Vance, J. W.
A. McCoy, Treas.
W. D. Hasry, Sec.
F. B. Blythe, S. D.
J. A. Puckette, J. D
G. H. Stephens, S.
W. S. Abernethy, S.
S. J . Stuart, Tiler,
Orphan Asylum Committee — F. B. Blythe, J. A. Puckette, C. W. McCoy.
MEMBERS.
Cathey, A. F. Houston, J. M-. McCoy, E- M.
Gluyas, T. Johnston, R. M. Stephens, E. A.
Henderson, A. R.
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MINGO LODGE, No. 206 — Mingo Muster Ground.
Regular Communications first Friday in each month and June 24th and
December 27th.
OPEICERS.
Eli R. Wilson, M.
I. L. Jackson, S. W.
A. B. Lockamy, J. W.
William Daughtry, Treas.
Martin Wilson, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — I. L.
Jesse F. Wilson, S. D.
Jno. E. Jackson, J. D.
Josiah Hudson, S.
J. J. Tew, S.
A. Elmore, Tiler.
kson, Jno. E. Wilson, W. R. Lee.
Boggett, Jno. R.
Boggett, Wm. Eli
Boggett, Hiram
Dudley, Jno.
Dawson, J. K.
Jackson, M. O.
Jackson, R. C.
MEMBERS.
Lockamy, Daniel
Lee, David
Lee, W. R.
Lee, Lunda
McPhail, Isaiah
Naylor, G. W.
Parker, A. B.
Sillis, E. M.
Thornton, Tyras
Vann, J. H.
Ward, Clifton
Wilson, Jno. E.
Wilson, George R.
LEBANON LODGE, No. 207 — WhitevillE.
Regular Communications Friday on or before full moon and on Satur-
day two weeks following.
OFFICERS.
Council Meares, M. H. B. Register, J. D.
Dr. N. A. Thompson, S. W. W. M. Hayes, S.
E. W. Fuhr, J. W. W. L. Powell, S.
W. S. Finck, Sec. R. D. Session, Tiler.
L- W. Stanley, S. D.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Dr. J. F. Harrell, Burdes Anderson, S. E.
Memory.
Brown, Hon. Jos. A.
Brown, R. E. L.
Boswell, U. F.
Best, Henry
Blake, J. B.
Blake, J. T.
Blake, J. R.
Butler, J. P.
MEMBERS.
Barnhill, A.
Chancy, W. H.
Creech, S. L.
Cowan, H. C.
Cook, E. H.
Clark, O. L.
Cashwell, J. W.
Campbell, W. N.
Cox, W. M.
Cox, F. E.
Cox, D. M.
Cooper, J. C.
Davis, Dr. W. Ross
Furguson, I. D.
High, D. P.
Hughes, W. J.
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Hasty, J. W.
Jolley, H. H.
Jackson, J. R.
LeeGallis, Ed.
Long, K. F.
Lewis, D. J.
Lennon, G. W
Moffitt, H. C.
Memory, J. L-
Maxwell, H. B.
Merritt, Win.
Pifer, E. A.
Richardson, Hon. V.V.
Rouse, J. W.
Soles, W. A. J.
Struthers, H. L.
Smith, A.
Smith, C. E.
Summersett, J. H.
Schulkin, Hon. J. B.
Walker, Rev. M. M.
Ward, Albert
Williamson, J. L.
Whittaker, J. E.
Wooten, E- C.
Young, M. I.
RANDLEMAN LODGE, No. 209 — RandlEman.
Regular Communications third Saturday in each month and June 24th
and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
W. A. Woollen, M.
W. W. Evans, S. W.
J. L. Fields, J. W.
B. H. Lassiter, Treas.
J. M. Brown, Sec.
S. E. Bostick, S. D.
S. E. Kirkman, J. D
Allen Hanner, S.
J. R. Lutterloh, S.
D. A. Hanner, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — S. E. Bostick, W. W. Evans, H. O. Barker.
MEMBERS.
Brown, Adam
Caudle,
Brown, J. M., Jr.
Clapp, ;
Bryant, C. K.
Gaston,
Bryant, W. T.
Henley
Betts, J. R.
Ingold,
Barker, H. O.
J. N.
Long, J. W.
fno. A.
McAlister, T. G
D. J.
Newlin, S. G.
, C. H.
Pugh, Jno. M.
F. N.
Wall, W. H.
THOMASVILLE LODGE, No. 214 — ThomasvillE.
Regular Communications Saturday night before each full moon and
June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
C. A. Julian, M.
T. W. S. Grimes, S. W.
T. F. Harris, J. W.
J W. Lambeth, Treas.
Geo. A. Thompson, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — F. S.
Thompson.
G. W. Tyler, S. D.
Henry Kenedy, J. D.
D. Grubb, S.
J. T. Gordon, S.
Wm. Marsh, Tiler.
^ambeth, H. W. Reinhart, Geo. A.
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Byrely, A.
Boaz, J. A.
Briles, J. L-
Clinard, D. B.
Chaney, R. G.
Clapp, C.
Clement, H. E.
Dodson, G. P.
Flippin, J. M.
Fuller, A.
Falls, L. A.
Gray, J. W.
Green, J. A.
MEMBERS.
Guy re, H. T.
Jones, T. A.
Long, J. A.
Long, D. A.
Lee, J. W.
Lindsay, H. W.
Lambeth, F. S.
Mendenhall, J. L.
Moore, Thos.
Miller, A. S.
McCarty, H. F.
Plumer, J. R.
Phillips, L. C.
Phelps, A. W.
Reinhart, H. W.
Stone, R. K.
Thomas, R. W.
Thomas, L- L.
Thayer, William
Thomas, David
Underwood, J L.
Varner, J. M.
Walker, R. L.
Yow, G. W.
CATAWBA VALLEY LODGE, No. 217— Morganton.
Regular Communications Monday on or before full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
Jas. R. Anderson, M.
I. P. Jeter, S. W.
W. C. Ervin, J. W.
B. F. Davis, Treas.
B. S. Gaither, Sec.
J. W. Wilson, Jr., S. D.
J. W. Ballew, J. D.
J. F. Battle, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Thos. L. Hemphill, I. T. Avery, John W.
Martin.
Avery, A. C.
Avery, I. T.
Brinkley, J. M.
Betts, O. A.
Connelly, A. A.
Cook, W. A.
Davis, J. A.
Dillworth, N.. B.
Daves, J. J.
Dobey, W. S.
Ervin, S. J.
Erwin, Geo. P.
Ervin, J. E-
Edmondson, Chas.
Faisten, O. F.
Faisard, E.
Gilliam, F. P.
MEMBERS.
Goodwin, E. McK.
Hurd, E. G.
Hennessee, M. N.
Hemphill, Thos. L-
Howard, R. G.
Hallyburton, J. W.
Jubin, M. L.
Kincaid, J. Monroe
Lynn, L. M.
Lazarus, N.
Collett, S. R.
Mills, J. C.
Martin, John W.
McDowell, C. M.
McNeely, Chas. R.
Olgilvie, A. G.
Pearson, D. C.
Pearson, Wm. H.
Pearsey, Gabriel
Puett, Samuel F.
Pitts, J. D.
Reid, E. F.
Ross, W. A.
Ross, Chas. E.
Tyler, F. W.
Taylor, I. M.
Tate, F. P.
Sprague, J. F.
Schell, R. Leroy
Wilson, J. W.
Wartman, W. A.
Walton, W. A.
Webber, L- J.
Ward, R. L.
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WILLIAM G. HILL LODGE, No. 218— Raleigh.
Regular Communications second and fourth Mondays in each month.
OFFICERS.
A. B. Andrews, Jr., M
J. H. Mullins, S. W.
S. J. Hinsdale, J. W.
J. A. Briggs, Treas.
J. C. Birdsong, Sec.
J. R. Norman, S. D
J. F. Jordan, J. D.
T. E. Green, S.
G. V. Barnes, S.
R. H. Bradley, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J.W. Halford, J. F. Jordan, W. J. Andrews.
Alford, J. H.
Andrews, W. J.
Broughton, N. B.
Blake, W. J.
Blake, W. R.
Blake, Jos.
Belvin, C. H.
Badger, Thos.
Beavers, J. C.
Broadfoot, A.
Burroughs, W. B.
Buck, W. A.
Baker, A. L.
Brown, F. F.
Baker, B. W.
Boy lan, Wm.
Carpenter, T. B.
Crawford, W. R., Jr.
Cross, J. W.
Craighill, N. R.
Dodd, W. H.
Drewry, J. C.
Daniel, Eugene
Dinwiddie, Jas.
Edwards, C. B.
Everitt, D. E.
Eberhardt, F. L.
Fleming, T. M.
Forrest, A. B.
Gatling, B. M.
Glover, B. C.
MEMBERS.
Ilowle, W. T.
Hunnicutt, F. W.
Hamilton, D. S.
Harrell, E. G.
Hicks, R. M.
Hayes, S. G.
Hunnicutt, F. H.
Hollingsworth, J. W.
Halford, J. W.
Hubbard, W. D.
Jones, J . A.
Jones, W. E.
King, W. H.
Lippincote, Henry
Lacy, B. R.
Lawrence, R. C.
Ludy, S. J.
Lumsden, C. F.
Mitchell, R. N.
Massey, W. F.
Mills, J. A.
Mitchell, J. F.
Moore, J. C.
Marsh, G. W„ Sr.
Norris, W. C.
Parker, M. A.
Poe, H.
Pittinger, I. McK.
Parker, T. H.
Royster, V. C.
Renn, J. R.
Redford, R. C.
Redford, J. F.
Redford, J. H.
Rosenthal, D.
Rogers, W. J.
Richmond, Alex
Robertson, J. A. J.
Ruth, J. A.
Rogers, J. R.
Richardson, E- G.
Simpson, Wm.
Sexton, J. A.
Stevenson, T. S.
Smith, H. F.
Singleton, W. H.
Simms, R. N.
Turner, V. E.
Terrall, J. R.
Thompson, J. W.
Terrall, G. S.
Terrall, L. D.
Tarkington, W. B.
Teny, W. D.
Teachy, J. M.
Fowler, J. J.
Uzzell, E. M.
Ueltschi, Jacob, Jr.
Whitelaw, John
Wetherell, W. P.
Wynne, G. W.
Wallen, Chas.
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Watson, P. A.
Walters, G. N.
Ward, John
Will, J. D.
Withers, W. A.
Waitte, S. D.
Weir, W. J.
Weir, H. H.
Woodruff, C. A
Young, W. F.
WILSON LODGE, No. 226— Olive.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before full moon in each
month and June 24th and December 27th
OFFICERS.
N. T. Summers, M.
J. A. Stikeleather, S. W.
R. R. Reid, J. W.
J. R. Hine, Treas.
J. C. Siceloff, Sec.
W. A. Goforth, S. D
D. F. Messick, J. D.
C. S. Holland, S.
M. E. Williams, S.
J. W. Bowles, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — N. T. Summers, J. A. Stikeleather, R. R.
Reid.
MEMBERS.
Current, W. E.
Calvert, J. E-
Cowan, W. H.
Campbell, W. B.
Fowler, J. W.
Gaither, F. B.
Holmes, W. R.
Hendren, W. G. B.
King, Dr. J. E.
Lowe, R. R.
Morris, J. G.
Privette, M. F.
Sharpe, H. W.
Williams, J. W.
Williams, O. G.
Wright, W. A.
Weatherman, Rev. J. W.
JONESVILLE LODGE, No. 227 — Jonesville.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before full moon in each month
and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
J. T. Burrous, M.
Q. L. Barnhart, S. W.
J. F. Cook, J. W.
J. F. Adams, Treas.
C. L. Reves, Sec.
J. C. Claywell, S. D
M. A. Minish, J. D.
C. L. Gray, S.
W. A. Reves, S.
F. M. Pardue, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — C. L. Reves, H. F. Gray, T. A. Atkins.
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Atkins, T. A.
Adams, Samuel
Cook, D. H.
Davis, W. G.
Gray, H. F.
George, D. S.
Harris, F. A.
Hunt, J. C.
MEMBERS.
Hendricks, A. L.
Johnson, J. B.
Laffoon, W. J.
Mathis, B. L.
Messick, J. Q.
Minish, A. W.
Minish, T. R.
McMickle, C. C.
Poindexter, R. E.
Perkins, J. M.
Ray, J. G.
Shores, W. C.
Speers, N. J.
Shugart, J. L.
Thompson, K. M.
Vestal, J. W.
McCORMICK DODGE, No. 228 — Broadway.
Regular Communications third Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. O. A. Kelly, M.
L. E. McNair, S. W.
E. B. Hunter, J. W.
H. B. Thomas, Treas.
W. J. Thomas, Sec.
C. B. McNeill, S. D.
J. L. Thomas, J. D.
W. D. Patterson, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — E. B. Hunter, H. B. Thomas, J. L. Thomas.
MEMBERS.
McBeod, M. A. Watson, M. M.
HENDERSON LODGE, No. 229— Henderson.
Regular Communications first and third Tuesdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
Prof. J. T. Alderman, M.
Dr. F. R. Harris, S. W.
R. H. Powell, J. W.
J. F. Harris, Treas.
R. S. McCain, Sec.
A. J. Harris, S. D.
A. T. Barnes, J. D
J. S. Poythress, S.
R. R. Pinkston, S.
J. W. Beck, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Owen Davis, J. B. Owen, S. F. Tiser.
Ball, A. H.
Barnes, A. T.
Barnes, D- W.
Bass, H. H.
Bridgers, J. H .
MEMBERS.
Brodie, B. T.
Cooper, D. Y.
Corbitt, R. J.
Collins, J. E-
Currin, J. L.
Cuningham , Rev. W.L
Davis, C. G.
Elmore, J. T.
Franlcinstein, Sol.
Feinburg, I.
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Gooch, L. R.
Gillmore, Rev. J. A.
Gary, W. E.
Harris, G. B.
Harris, S. R.
Hardee, D. W.
Hicks, T. T.
Hunter, Claud
Hood, R. H.
Hill, Rev. Thos. B.
Horton, W. R.
Johnston, Rev. T. M.
Lehman, N.
Lambert, J. T.
Mitchel, W. D.
MacNair, Wm.
Macon, Dr F. A.
Perry, Col. Henr}r
Powell, E. A.
Powell, W. J.
Rowland, W. W.
Stainback, L. D.
Strause, H. P.
Stallings, J. D.
Shannon, W. O.
Sumners, Oscar
Satterwhite, R. R.
Wallett, W. F.
Williams, Rev. J. S.
Williams, Sol. P.
Young, J. R.
CORINTHIAN LODGE, No. 230— Rocky Mount.
OFFICERS.
J. O. W. Graveley, M.
W. L. Groome, S. W.
Ralph Pitt, J. W.
J. C. Braswell, Treas.
T. M. Arrington, Sec.
J. H. Thorpe, S. D.
John L- Arrington, J. D
W. E. Jeffreys, S.
T. J. Hackney, S.
J. P. Daughtry, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Daniel Abram, Geo. L. Parker, W. H
Whitehead.
Abram, Daniel
Brewer, H. E.
Bassett, L. V.
Braswell, M. R.
Bullock, R. D.
Bullock, Lee D.
Coltrane, N. E.
Cooper, C. C.
Downing, H. J.
Devine, W. C.
Garvey, J. T.
Graveley, M. K.
Griffin, J. M.
members.
Hammond, C. W.
Hilliard, Sid. P.
Hart, Edgar Lee
Horne, J. L-
Kersey, John F.
Lewis, John B.
Levy, Louis C.
Muse, E- G.
Matthews, S. W.
Matthews, J. Webb
Matthews, G. T.
Moore, Henry B.
Nobles, A. B.
Parker, Geo. L-
Ramsey, F. Y.
Ricks, Robt. H.
Smith, James
Smith, Thad. J.
Shubrick, J. T.
Thorpe, Henry R.
Vaughan, S. B.
Wimberly, Geo. L-, Jr.
Whithead, W. H.
Whitaker, J. A.
Woodruff, F. D.
Snyder, J. G.
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WILLIAM T. BAIN LODGE, No. 231— Kadar.
Regular Communications Saturday before the third Sundays in each
month and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
W. R. Stevenson, M.
K. J. Powell, S. W.
C. P. Rand, J. W.
S. M. Rowland, Treas.
W. S. Turner, Sec.
S. W. Smith, S. D.
J. P. Bridges, J. D.
James Adams, S.
Reddin Stevens, S.
S. H. Carroll, Tiler
Orphan Asylum Committee — S. M. Rowland, Reddin Stevens, K. T.
Powell.
MEMBERS.
Pool, Alonzo Turner, W. P. Turner, T. H.
Smith, Rufus
LENOIR LODGE, No. 233— LaGrange.
Regular Communications first Thursday in each month.
OFFICERS.
Geo. L. Taylor, M.
J. W. P. Smithwick, S.
J. H. Dukes, S. W.
J. F. Barwick, J, D.
W. F. Sutton, J. W.
J. H. Rouse, S.
O. Taylor, Treas.
J. H. Aldridge, S.
D. C. Murchison, Sec.
W. 0. Pelletier, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — D. L. Fields,
Geo. B. Hadley, N.
Creech.
MEMBERS.
Bizzell, H. L-
Hadley, Geo. B.
Rice, J. W.
Bizzell, Wooten
Hardee, W. H.
Sutton, S. I.
Bizzell, J. W.
Hodges, J. M.
Sutton, J. E-
Creech, R. G.
Ivey, J. J.
Swain, W. E.
Creech, R. A.
Jones, T. H.
Taylor, W. H.
Creech, N. W.
Kinsey, Joseph
Wooten, C. S.
Farlines, C. E.
Kinsey, R. B.
Walters, J. D.
Fields, D. L.
King, W. T.
Whitfield, W. B.
Fields, Jno. W.
McCoy, Asa
Williams, H. V.
Garris, Howell
McDonald, H. M.
Wooten, J. S.
Guyer, S. J.
Newman, R. L-
Wrood, D. W.
Hadley, J. M.
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COKESBURY LODGE, No. 235— Chalk Level.
Regular Communications Saturday before the third Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
B. F. Harrington, M.
R. S. Abernathy, S. W
C. B. Harrington, J. W
R. T. Spence, Treas.
H. L. Prince, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — L- H. Avent, J. P. Dewar, R. T. Johnson.
MEMBERS.
Collins, Rev. J. W. Harrington, J. T. Johnson, Willis
Dewar, W. A. Jones, J. P. Matthews, John
Griffin, W. J.
L. H. Avent, S. D.
N. B. McLean, J. D.
J. P. Dewar, S.
R. T. Johnson, S.
G. D. Abernathy, Tiler.
MYSTIC TIE LODGE, No. 237— Marion.
Regular Communications Friday before each full moon, Tuesday of
Superior Courts, and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
B. B. Price, M.
Thomas Morris, S. W.
M. F. Morphew, J. W.
J. C. Pool, Treas.
G. W. Crawford, Sec.
Ashworth, B. L.
Burgin, W. McD.
Burgin, R. J.
Bird, R. I.
Bidit, J. W.
Conley, G. W.
Conley, G. C.
Conley, J. E.
Dysart, J. S.
Davenport, W. S.
Dobson, J. D.
Eaves, G. G.
MEMBERS.
Gibson, J. D.
Hicks, A. I.
Hemphill, T. B.
House, E. H.
House, C. E.
Kanipe, J. M.
Kanipe, D. A.
Kirby, J. S.
Lee, Geo. E.
Laughridge, J. A.
Laughridge, W. A.
Lucus, Daniel
J. A. Poteet, S. D.
Abe McGee, J. D.
J. G. Nichols, S.
J. S. Downey, S.
J. M. Clay, Tiler.
Morgan, J. L.
Mason, A. J.
McNeely, J. R
Neal, J. G.
Neal, J. M.
Nichols, J. G.
Poteet, J. E.
Price, J. C.
Padgett, J. L.
Taylor, W. H.
Taylor, G. D.
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ATLANTIC LODGE, No. 238— Moyock.
Regular Communications first Thursday in each month.
OFFICERS.
D. A. Cox, M.
J. F. Gray, S. W.
G. E. Overman, J. W.
T. B. Jones, Treas.
Ethridge, W. J.
Powers, W. L.
Piner, E. D.
MEMBERS.
Ritter, Dr. F. W.
Stallings, Rev. N. P.
T. B. Jones, Sec.
W. P. Creekmore, S. D.
F. T. Vaudegrift, J. D.
H. J. Wilson, Tiler.
Sawyer, A. D.
White, Thos.
ROUNTREE LODGE, No. 243— Near Grifton.
Regular Communications first Saturday in each month
officers.
J. E. Cameron, M.
J. M. Phillips, S. W.
W. A. G. Gaskins, J. W.
Lewis Kilpatrick, Treas.
C. L- Rountree, Sec.
Hassell Wiggins, S. D
J. L. Ives, J. D.
W. H. Phillips, S.
A. F. Brooks, S.
Lacy Phillips, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. M. Phillips, S. W. Sumrell, D. C. Smith.
MEMBERS.
Broadway, C. A.
Grubbs, J. T.
Nelson, Robert
Pittman, E- V.
Kilpatrick, F. M.
Smith, M. C.
Smith, W. H.
Smith, D. C.
Sumrell, S. W
White, E. J.
Wine, W. R.
MONROE LODGE, No. 244 — Monroe.
Regular Communications first and third Fridays in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. Ed. Stewart, M.
J. P. McEwen, S. W.
Jas. A. Stewart, J. W.
Dr. S. J. Welsh, Treas.
J. E. McCarten, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — H. B.
Blair.
W. C. Crowell, S. D.
L. H. Thompson, J. D.
W. F. Stillwell, S.
W. H. Payne, S.
J. W. Kudge, Tiler.
Adams, W. C. Wolfe, Jr., Dr. J. M.
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MEMBERS.
Adams, H. B.
Houston, R. C.
Monroe, A. L.
Belk, Dr. J. M.
Hamilton, O. C.
Price, D. Me.
Bruner, C. W.
Hefner, Wiley
Richardson, C. H.
Belk, W. H.
Johnson, A. C.
Robertson, J. A.
Blair, Dr. J. M.
Jerome, T. J.
Secrest, L. S.
Bourn, I. B.
Love, Thomas
Stewart, Jas. F.
Bishop, J. F.
Lane, W. A.
Wrolfe, W. C., Jr.
Bishop, J. S.
Little, Rev. J. W.
Weir, J. H.
Crowell, A. H.
Lowe, C. F.
Wolfe, W. C., Sr.
Dixon, Rev. H. M.
Fairley, J. M.
Monroe, J. P.
Wolfe, F. H.
CATAWBA LODGE, No. 248-
-Newton.
Regular Communications Friday on or before the full moon in ea<
month and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
W. B. Gaither, M.
R. B. Knox, S. D.
J. F. Smyre, S. W.
W. T. Hoyle, J.
C. M. McCorkle, J. W.
E. J- Taylor, S.
J. W. Hardister, Treas
J. D. Nixon, S.
Jas. M. Brown, Sec.
members.
D. P. Yount, Til*
Albright, J. D.
Erwin, J. W.
Reinhardt, W. A.
Abernethy, T. R.
Freize, R. P.
Rhyne, S. L.
Boyd, 0. M.
Gibbs, J. B.
Sherrill, John
Boyd, J. F.
Herman, H. A.
Sease, H. D.
Boyd, D. M.
Horn, J. E.
Shook, S. E.
Brothers, C. C.
Hewitt, R. L.
Shuford, A. C.
Burris, C. M.
Klutz, Dr. P. J.
Smith, A. H.
Burton, R. F.
Lowe, G. W.
Setzer, Geo. W.
Berry, S. E.
Lowrance, M. E.
Steel, M. T.
Bowman, M. T.
Long, J. U.
Stamy, W. A.
Carpenter, D. J.
Little, Dr. J. B.
Thompson, W. H.
Campbell, Dr. J. R.
Mehaffey, J. T.
Tood, G. A.
Caldwell, R. P.
McCorkle, George
Taylor, R. D.
Clark, B. P.
Phillips, J. W.
Williams, W. Ii.
Cline, J. D.
Rudisill, R. A.
Witherspoon, J. A.
Cline, J. R.
Ramseur, E- R.
Woodard, W. I.
Cody, E. W.
Ratnseur, W. S.
Witherspoon, L. L.
Dorathy, J. M.
Reinhardt, R. P.
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PYTHAGORAS LODGE, No. 249— Southport.
Regular Communications third Tuesday in each month.
OFFICERS.
O. D. Burriss, M.
C. Ed Taylor, S. W.
R. S. Newton, J. W.
S. M. Robbins, Treas.
T. L. Vines, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Wm.
Gordon.
Asa Dosher, S. D.
J. W. Mintz, J. D.
R. Dosher, S.
H. E. O. Mintz, S.
Walker Newton, Tiler.
Weeks, Walker Newton, E. F.
MEMBERS.
Adkins, J. J.
Canaday, Percy
Craig, S. F.
Curtis, W. G.
Drew, S. S.
Lipsie, T. E. L-
Moore, A. M.
Mercer, J. B.
Pinner, J. L.
Price, J. D.
Rourk, W. A.
Schuster, Chas.
Taylor, E. W.
Watson, D. I.
ROCKFORD LODGE, No. 251 — Rockford.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before each full moon
OFFICERS.
C. B. Davis, M.
J. G. Burrus, S. W.
W. Y. Davenport, J. W.
J. J. Stone, Treas.
W. P. Dobson, Sec.
I. T. Davenport, S. D
G. M. Burrus, J. D.
B. W. Flynn, S.
J. H. Hardy, S.
J. W. Chandler, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee—] . G. Burrus, S. S. Bohannon, J. H. Allen
Adams, E- J.
Dunn, H. C.
Fleming, J. C.
Holyfield, W. B.
Layne, J. D.
Myers, W. R.
MEMBERS.
McKaughan, J. A.
Reece, W. R.
Swaim, H. A.
Snow, R. R.
Snow, Henry
Smith, J. J.
Taylor, Seytnor
Turner, A. W.
Whitaker, A. P.
Whitaker, Aaron
Ward, C. L.
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LILY VALLEY LODGE, No. 252— Sunbury.
Regular Communications fourth Saterday in each month.
OFFICERS.
Dr. E. F. Corbell, M.
L. S. Parker, S. W.
W. C. Vann, J. W.
D. W. Parker, Treas.
Geo. J. Costen, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Geo . J. Costen,
W. B. S. Riddick, S. D.
W. A. Hofler, J. D.
C. W. Hofier, S.
Alexander Copeland, S.
W. W Savage, Tiler.
L. S. Parker, W. C. Vann.
Cross, Elisha
Cross, Rich L.
Copeland, Alexander
Dunn, Joseph
Freeman, Jas. H.
MEMBERS.
Hurdle, H. B.
Hofier, W. A.
Jones, J. B.
Jackson, J. S.
Marysohn, Henry
Richards, W. J.
Smith, Geo. B.
Wiggins, W. J.
LEE LODGE, No. 253 — Taylorsville.
Regular Communications first Monday in each month.
OFFICERS.
T. J. Fortner, M.
W. J. Allen, S. W.
E. L. Hedrick, J. W.
A. J. Burke, Treas.
W. P. Hedrick, Sec.
Alexander, C. O.
Adams, W. S.
Burke, W. P.
Bennett, R. H.
Bumgarner, W. J.
Blackwelder, W. Z.
Cobb, R. F.
Canter, R. F.
Campbell, J. N.
Campbell, A.
Campbell, W. J.
— E. C. Sloan, J.
MEMBERS.
Daniels, W. E.
Davis, J. L .
Drum, H. H.
Davis, W. J.
Deal, J. M.
Davis, R. L.
Gwaltney, J. P.
Gilreath, J. E.
Gwaltney, J. L.
Hollar, W. A.
Hammer, P. M.
F. C. Thompson, S. D.
J. H. Hammer, J. D.
B. V. Correll, S.
H. J. Gladden, S.
J. R. Thompson, Tiler.
P. Thompson, L. P.
Kerley, W. C.
Kerley, T. M.
Kerley, R. R.
Lentz, C. H.
Lumsden, S. J.
Lackey, R. S.
Lowe, E. P.
Lentz, J. Frank
Mayberry, J. W.
Matheson, A. M.
Matheson, R. P.
Orphan Asylum Committee
Gwaltney.
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Matkeson, A. H.
McLean, R. P.
Munday, W. F.
McClelland, H. A.
McClelland, W. D.
Mayberry, C. C.
Moose, F. W.
Matheson, R. L.
Payne, A. C.
Stewart, J. F.
St. Clair, Lee
Shavor, J. M.
Teague, L- L.
Teague, E. W.
Watts, J. W.
Williams, C. P.
West, R. N.
White, J. A.
Woodfin, W. H., Sr.
Woodfin, W. H., Jr.
Williams, J. Y.
OAKS LODGE, No. 255— Oaks.
OFFICERS.
Thos. A. Morrow, M. Sidney S. Webb, Sec.
W. Gaston Stanford, S. W. Charles W. Stanford, S. D.
S. Alex. Morrow, J. W. Stephen M. Roberson, J. D.
David M. Sykes, Treas. John T. Sykes, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — S. A. Morrow, J. Harvey White, John T.
Sykes.
MEMBERS.
Andrews, Adderson F.
Atwater, Thos. A.
Canathus, W. G.
Cates, Luther M.
Crawford, J. Alex.
Eubanks, Fred J.
Guthrie, G. Clyborn
Mann, Dr. Ed.
Roberson, Nathaniel
Straughn, Geo. W.
Thompson, Rev. B. C
White, J. Harvey
KENLY LODGE, No. 257— Kenly.
Regular Communications Saturday before each fourth Sunday except
June and December — June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
H. C. Rose, M.
John O. Boyett, S. W.
John H. Watson, J. W.
Eli Godwin, Treas.
Gaston Watson, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Jesse
Edgerton.
R. H. Raper, S. D.
Jas. H. Alford, J. D.
Henry G. Watson, S.
Leroy Jackson, S.
Wiley G. Watkins, Tiler.
Watson, B. A. Alford, Chas W.
Battin, G. W.
Battin, Ransom
Bass, W. H.
Barnes, Isaac
MEMBERS.
Barnes, Griffin
Brown, Hilliard
Creech, J. B.
Crocker, W. A.
Davis, J. Q.
Davis, M. T.
Darden, J. W.
Edgerton, W. A.
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Ferrell, R. F.
Ferrell, J. B.
Fitzjoist, Z. V.
Grice, W. H.
Hatcher, Hardy
Howlon, P. A.
Hawley, J. P.
Hinnant, D. H.
Jones, W. F.
Kerby, Jesse
Kerby, W. T.
Lamm, Isaiah
Lamm, J. A.
Moore, W. L-
Mitchel, Rev. L- M.
Nairon, Loyad
Puley, R. M.
Pitman, H. W.
Pitman, W. G.
Parish, J. W.
Radford, Miles
Rains, H.
Rains, J. R.
Rose, B. J.
Stancil, J. H.
Stancil, W. D.
Stancil, Josiah
Sullavent, J . R.
Stuckey, John H.
Stuckey, Jethroe H.
Wines, B.
Wallis, D. H.
Watson, J. W.
Watson, Hardy
Watson, Levin
Watson, G. W.
HARNETT LODGE, No. 258 — Hector’s Creek Academy,
Regular Communications Saturday before the first Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
A. L. Baucom, M.
J. S. Ogburn, S. W.
D. H. Matthews, J. W.
Geo. D. Spence, Treas.
H. Y. Smith, Sec.
D. H. Senter, S. D.
Y. O. Utley, J. D.
N. B. Jones, Tiler.
MEMBERS.
Ballentine, D. G. Matthews, Willie A. Senter, John A.
Johnson, Jas. A., Jr.
WAYNESVILLE LODGE, No. 259— Waynesville.
Regular Communications Friday on or before the full moon.
OFFICERS.
J. N. Peacock, M.
D. F. Reinhart, S. W.
A. C. Cagle, J. W.
W. T. Lee, Treas.
Jno. M. Davis, Sec.
C. K. Peacock, S. D.
A. M. Newton, J. D.
E. Heller, S.
J. H. Payne, S.
M. S. Russill, Tiler.
MEMBERS.
Allen, O. L.
Allen, R. L.
Allen, W. H
Boone, J. K.
Bean, J. K.
Blalock, J. A.
Brendle, J. M
Conor, W. A.
Cagle, D. M.
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Davis, F. M.
Davis, J. R.
Edmonston, T. B.
Ector, J. G.
Ferguson, W. B.
Ferguson, G. S.
Ferguson, J. A.
Ferguson, H. B.
Ferguson, J. W.
Faucett, W. H.
Gudger, J. C. E.
Gudger, E. W.
Gilmer, R. D.
Howell, A. A.
Hyatt, F. T.
Hunt, Rev. F. D
Killion, D. M.
Liner, Joseph
McCracken, R. Q.
McFadyen, H. L.
Miller, W. E.
Moore, H. B.
Malonee, Walter
Ovvenby, M. J.
Osborn, A. J.
Osborn, R. E.
Penland, R. H.
Rhinehart, M T.
Ray, C. H.
Rogers, H. M.
Rogers, Rev. T. J.
Shepherd, W. E.
Schulhofer, S. J.
Stringfield, W. W.
Sentell, R. A.
Swift, J. P.
Tate, J. M.
Way, Dr. J. H.
Wey, F. W.
Welch, J. C.
EXCELSIOR LODGE, No. 261— Charlotte.
Regular Communications first and third Mondays in each month.
OFFICERS.
F. M. Winchester, M.
C. B. Flournoy, S. W.
W. J. Polk, J. W.
S. W. Neece, Treas.
B. F. Powell, Sec.
Jno. W. Smith, S. D.
John T. Farrington, J. D.
W. B. Jackson, S.
L. A. Pangle, S.
J. H. Thore, Tiler.
T. J.
Orphan Asylum
Blackmon.
Committee — E. J. Busch,
MEMBERS.
R. S. Wilson, W.
Allen, R. I.
Cline, J. A.
Gresham, W. A.
Alexander, R.
Crossland, J. B.
Gurley, G. W.
Bradshaw, C. W.
Cathey, H. A.
Hinson, J. I.
Bradshaw, W. A.
Chrietzburg, H. F.
Howie, J. C.
Buchanan, W. F.
Donaldson, C. S.
Hackney, L. L.
Barkley, D. A.
Dinkins, J. A.
Hughes, W. G.
Byers, E. T.
Dudley, C. H.
Holmes, W. F.
Butler, Geo. H.
Fennell, J. S.
Henderson, H. C.
Blackwood, Ross
Finley, T. W.
Iceman, C. A. J.
Cooper, T. S.
Ferguson, W. C.
Johnson, E. L.
Crowder, A. M.
Gale, F. M.
Kesiah, B. L.
Craig, J. S.
Grady, J. F.
Lindy, J. S.
Campbell, S. S.
Garraux, Ernest
Lanyoux, J. C.
Crayton, U. S.
Garraux, W.
Lubin, J.
Curlee, J. E.
Glenn, J. B.
London, H. S.
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Maxwell, H. B.
Miller, H.
Mullen, J. W.
Marks, S. H.
McManaway, C. G.
McCraven, W. E-
Pettus, J. D.
Perkins, W. F.
Rodgers, J. A.
Rodgers, Thos. F.
Roberts, J. F.
Sanders, J. P.
Solomon, A. B.
Smith, J. Ed.
Smith, Fred
Thomas, W. M.
Thomas, Moses
Thomas, J. H.
Thomas, C. M.
Taylor, J. H.
VanNess, J. H.
West, G. R.
Winchester, J. R.
Wentz, I. B.
Yongue, J. B.
HIBRITEN LODGE, No. 262— Lenoir.
Regular Communications Thursday before each full moon and Tuesday
of each Superior Court.
OFFICERS.
M. E. Shell, M.
H. L. Houck, S. W.
L. M. Parks, J. W.
D. S. Perry, Treas.
N. H. Hailey, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — L. M.
J-. K. Moore, S. D.
J. D. Moore, J. D.
J. W. Bron, S. '
C. M. Sigman, S.
G. W. Presnell, Tiler,
ks, J. D. Moore, H L. Houck.
Annis, M. H.
Annis, G. J.
Bush, J. A.
Bernhardt, G. L.
Bernhardt, J. M.
Bogle, M. P.
Boyd, A. H.
Blackwell, R. H.
Clarke, S. M.
Coffey, T. H.
Coffey, C. D.
Conley, G. W.
Corpening, I. K.
Deal, W. W.
Downs, J. M.
Earnhardt, G. C.
Griffin, D. A.
Harper, S. F.
Hayes, J. M.
Hayes, J. L.
Henkel, C. V.
Higgins, T. H.
MEMBERS.
Hoke, W. A.
Hartley, C. L.
Houck, G. P.
Ivey, W. P.
Ivey, G. W.
Icard, W. R.
Johnson, P. J.
Kiser, P. G.
Hartsell, M. B.
King, S. S.
Lenoir, R. T.
Morris, W. M.
McDowell, S. M.
McCall, W. S.
McCall, J. W. C.
Montgomery, J. T.
Moose, J. K.
Moore, E. L.
Munday, R. G.
Newland, H. T.
Newland, W. C.
Phillips, E. B.
Poorch, J. P.
Ranseur, W. J.
Spainhour, J. M.
Steele, H. A.
Sudderth, J. W.
Swanson, W. L.
Scott, W. W.
Shearer, M. G.
Sudderth, C. T.
Spencer, I. T. A.
Squires, J. S.
Simms, T. J.
Sherrill, G. D.
Thompson, M. E.
Thompson, J. H.
Talbert, J. W.
Thomas, J. W.
Triplett, J. A.
Wakefield, T. A.
West, C. D.
Wedley, J. R.
Valley, J. B.
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GASTON LODGE, No. 263— Dallas.
Regular Communications first Friday after full moon in each month
and June 24th and December 27th and Monday
of court week.
OFFICERS.
O. F. Mason, M.
James S. Downum, S. W.
G. R. Rhyne, J. W.
J. M. Shuford, Treas.
J. F. Downum, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee—] . R.
Friday.
J. R. Lewis, S. D.
R. O. Costner, J. D.
R. L. McLurd, S.
S. F. Long, S.
T. Larkin Rhyne, Tiler.
Lewis, James S. Downum, M. D.
Arp, J. M.
Costner, C. C.
Crook, J. C.
Cornwell, C. C.
Davis, Geo. H.
Detter, George W.
Friday, M. D.
MEMBERS.
Friday, D. F.
Gamble, John W.
Howell, W. A.
Hoffman, C. M.
Huggins, H. M.
Jenkins, J. H.
Mason, W. D.
McLellan, J. M.
Moore, M. A.
Peterson, M. B.
Rhyne, W. N.
Rutledge, J. H.
Summey, J. M. W.
Thompson, F. W.
FARMINGTON LODGE, No. 265 — Farmington.
Regular Communications second Friday in each month.
OFFICERS.
C. F. Bahnson, M.
W. Iv. Clement, S. W.
G. B. Harding, J. W.
A. W. Ellis, Treas.
R. C. Brown, Sec.
F. H. Bahnson, S. D
C. A. Hartman, J. D.
W. F. Furches, S.
S. A. Jarvis, S.
J. F. Graves, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — A. W. Ellis, W. K. Clement, S. A. Jarvis.
MEMBERS.
Baity, F. A.
Clingman, J. J.
Johnson, W. G.
Puryear, R. C.
Smith, IP. H.
Teague, M. F.
Taylor, Jas.
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DURBIN LODGE, No. 266 — Autryville.
Regular Communications second Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
T. J. Williams, S. D.
W. H. Moore, J. D.
W. W. Averett, S.
Rev. T. B. Hall, S.
C. H. Jordan, Tiler.
Capt- J. L Autry, Niram Jackson, A. M.
MEMBERS.
Averett, H. S. Jones, W. J. Royal, A. E.
Culbreth, W. J. Lewis, E. A. Williams, J. T.
Goodrich, H. J.
DUNN’S ROCK LODGE, No. 267- Brevard.
Regular Communications Friday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
Thomas S. Wood, M.
F. L. Wilson, S. D.
G. W. Young, S. W.
Wm. M. Henry, J. D.
T. T. Loftis, J. W.
P. S. King, S.
W. K. Osborne, Treas.
L. Young, S.
Wm. Maxwell, Sec.
J. M. Glazener, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Thos. S. Wood,
W. R. Rodes.
MEMBERS.
G. W. Young, T. T. Loftis,
Allison, C. A.
Cox, J. C.
Gash, T. S.
Barton, E. B.
Case, W. I.
Hunt, C. W.
Beck, A. W.
Davis, C. C.
Harden, A. L.
Boren, W. C.
Duckworth, J. E.
Hume, W. L.
Brown, B. J.
Dunn, M. S.
Hedden, D. B.
Bishop, W. E.
English, E. S.
Hamlin, E. S.
Cox, J. L.
Foster, S. N.
Harkins, W. W.
Clayton, B. E.
Fisher, T. G.
Hedden, B. W.
Cannon, J. A.
Galloway, W. E.
Jordan, A. F.
Cash, A. P.
Galloway, T. H.
Kirth, S: A.
Carnes, W. H.
Gash, W. A.
King, A. H.
Cox, J. H.
Glazener, George M.
Ledbetter, I. B.
T. C. Bullock, M.
Surrell Sessoms, S. W.
W. B. Maxwell, J. W.
S. J. Faircloth, Treas.
John L- Autry, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee —
Sessoms.
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Morgan, O. C.
Moore, G. H.
McCrary, Silas
McMinn, Naith
McGaha, V. B.
McMinn, J. W.
Neill, G. C.
Newton, W. T.
Neill, J. Gaston
Reid, T. B.
Reid, E. D.
Southern, J. M.
Sherill, D. M.
Shuford, Fred
Tinsley, A. L.
Whitmore, J. C.
Wilson, W. J.
Wilson, James P.
Young, Dessa
UNAKA LODGE, No. 268— Webster.
Regular Communications first and third Fridays in each month.
OFFICERS.
Coleman C. Cowan, M.
H. C. Cowan, S. W.
W. A. Hinson, J. W.
J. A. Stillwell, Treas.
J. B. Sherrill, Sec.
John H. Wilson, S. D.
J. R. Fore, J. D.
Walter E. Moore, S.
D. G. Bigham, S.
Henry Brogden, Tiler,
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. C. Buchanan, W. R. Sherrill, C. J. Love
Allison, T. B.
Allison, C. B.
Bennett, H.
Browu, B. M.
Bryson, J. F.
Bryson, James
Cunningham, G. D.
Coward, O. B.
Cunningham, R. H.
Cowan, J. W.
Davis, E. D.
MEMBERS.
Davis, A. W.
Deitz, T. F.
Davis, N. A.
Ensley, W. W.
Ensley, R. T.
Fore, J. W.
Fisher, J. C.
Jones, W. A.
Jones, J. F.
Keener, J. W.
Keener, John S.
Lawrence, F. L. E-
Moore, Fred
Moody, Bennett
Spake, G. W.
Shelly, J. O.
Shelton, M. W.
Stillwell, W. A.
Terrell, J. W.
Worley, J. M.
TOBASCO LODGE, No. 271— Gibsonvieee.
Regular Communications second Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. C. Michael, M.
H. W. Shepherd, S. W.
M. J. Randolph, J. W.
G. E- Jordan, Treas.
J. W. B. Paylor, Sec.
A. A. Shepherd, S. D,
C. C. Shepherd, J. D
I. N. Woodward, S.
J. G. May, S.
H. S. Lewey, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Com
Fogleman.
Gregg, T. A.
Gulley, S. R.
Jones, H. E.
Jones, J. E-
Ketner, E- S.
ittee — D. E- Wagoner.
MEMBERS.
Michael, Peter
Owen, H. B.
Smith, A. W.
Sullivan, C. C.
Sutton, W. T.
D. V. Ferguson, D. W.
'Shoffner, R. D.
Woodard, W. R,
Wiles, J. R.
Wheeler, E. B.
BINGHAM LODGE, No. 272 — Haw River.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before the full moon.
OFFICERS .
Will Williamson, M.
J. H. Blackmon, Sr., S. W.
J. E. Crutchfield, J. W.
J. H. Blackmon, Jr., Treas.
A. S. Cate, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. H.
Ben. Clark.
W. J. Crutchfield, S. D.
Seth Parker, J. D.
Jerre L. Hughes, S.
R. O. Hailey, S.
Thos. Best, Tiler.
Blackmon, Sr., W. J. Crutchfield,
Cates, G. W. P.
Curtis, W. C.
Fowler, T. H
Gibson, J. S.
Gibson, W. J.
Howard, J. W.
Johnston, Edward
MEMBERS.
Killett, J. C.
Mebane, A. H.
Moore, Henry
McAdams, Jas. T.
Robertson, T. M.
Sykes, H.
Sykes, W. H.
Simpson, H. V.
Thornton, S. M.
Thornton, J. T.
Vest, S. A.
Williams, T. R.
Williamson, J. R
Younger, J. J.
WATAUGA LODGE, No. 273— Boone.
Regular Communications Saturday before full moon in each month
and Jun.e 24th and December 27th and Monday of court weeks.
OFFICERS.
Joe B. Clarke, M.
W. F. Parker, S. W.
J. C. Ray, J. W.
J. F. Hardin, Treas.
Thos. L . Critcher, Sec.
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L. L. Critcher, S. D.
W. D. Norris, J. D.
W. D. Cook, S.
W. G. Todd, S.
D. C. Williams, Tiler,
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Orphan Asylum Committee — J. C. Ray, J. H.
MEMBERS.
Blair, G. H .
Bingham, S. N.
Blair, J. B.
Critclier, G. A.
Critcher, T. A.
Coffey, W. C.
Coffey, H. C.
Copening, I. N.
Councill, J. H.
Elrod, John
Eggers, Landrine
Elrod, Wm.
Farthing, J. W.
Green, Solomon
Green, J. H.
Green, Allen,
Hardin, Henry W.
Hardin, James H.
Hardin, Wm. H.
Hamby, P. L.
Hayes, Wm. T.
Harrison, J. W.
Hodges, John R.
Cook, A. J. Critcher,
Hodges, J. W.
Eoville, E. F.
Morphew, Levi
McGhee, J. C.
Parker, R. H.
Perkins, E. N.
Raby, Dr. G. W.
Raby, M. O.
Spainhour, J. F.
Sherrill, W. W.
Todd, Joe B.
BEAVER DAM DODGE, No. 276 — Marshvirle.
Regular Communications Friday on or before each full moon, except
June and December, then on June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
J. D. Bennett, M.
E. E. Marsh, S. W.
J. C. Morgan, J. W.
Wm. T. Marsh, Treas.
Jas. A. Marsh, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. E. Collins,
Brooks.
D. F. Eubanks, S. D.
M. A. Moore, J. D.
J. C. Hamilton, S.
J. J. Cox, S.
Jos. M. Austin, Tiler.
Dr. J. B. Eubanks, Dr. H. M.
Allen, Vernon
Austin, M. C.
Birmingham, T. B.
Birmingham, S. W.
Brooks, A. J
MEMBERS.
Bailey, C. T.
Chears, V. T.
Doster, Dr. T. L.
Dees, Dr. W. A.
Little, J. S.
Marse, W. B.
Parker, B. F.
.Smith, Sanford
GREEN LEVEL LODGE, No. 277— Ewing.
Regular Communications Saturday before the second Sunday in each
month and December 27th;
OFFICERS.
A. Herndon, M. Seth Broadwell, S. D.
W. B. Upchurch, S. W. C. E- Beavers, J. D.
J. D. Council, J. W. S. C. Segraves, S.
J. M. Broadwell, Treas. W. J. Johnson, Tiler.
L. D. Baucom, Sec.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — W. B. Upchurch, W. F. Johnson, Seth
Broadwell.
MEMBERS.
Holeman, Nathan Johnson, W. B.
Holland, T. T. McKee, W. N.
Mills, Ernest
Yates, L. S.
REHOBOTH LODGE, No. 279— Teachey’s.
Regular Communications Friday before the fourth Sunday in each
month, except June and December, then June 24th
and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
James D. Boney, M. Sidney E. Johnson, S. D.
W. Rufus Bland, S. W. Luther B. Carr, J. D.
B. Frank Fussell, J. W. Joseph S. Rouse, S.
LaFayette Southerland, Treas. Timothy W. Boney, S.
John C. McMillan, Sec. Henry Long, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — A. Francis Bland, Timothy W. Boney,
Christopher C. Boney.
Benton, E. Albert
Bland, A. Francis
Boney, Christopher C.
Boney, Paisley
Bradshaw, Leviticus
Hatcher, Dr. Thos. R.
Hawes, Wm. B.
MEMBERS.
New, John W.
Newton, Alexander
Powers, Dr. K. James
Register, Dixon S.
Rouse, Rufus H.
Sloan, William D.
Southerland, Wm. A
Vick, Robert E-
Wallace, David H.
Williams, James C.
Wilkins, J. Thomas
Wilkins, W. David
EUREKA LODGE, No. 283 — China Grove.
Regular Communications the first Saturday in each month.
E. G. Pusey, M.
C. J. Kimball, S. W.
J. V. Pethel, J. W.
F. Cline, Treas.
C. M. Petrea, Sec.
Alexander, C. W.
Barringer, Rev. Paul
Collins, J. N. W.
Correll, V. L.
Crowell, Dr. S. M.
OFFICERS.
MEMBERS.
Deaton, J. E.
Lyles, W. K.
Overcash, L. J-
Stirewalt, L. E.
C. H. Cole, S. D.
P. E. Wright, J. D.
A. Yost, S.
J. A. Yost, S.
A. M. Correll, Tiler.
Stirewalt, M. A.
Thom, J. A.
Wilhelm, G. H. S.
Wright, D. F.
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GREENVILLE LODGE, No. 284— Greenvilee.
Regular Communications first and third Mondays in each month and
the third Thursday in June.
OFFICERS.
E. E. Griffin, M.
W. B. Wilson, S. W.
F. C. Harding, J. W.
J. N. Hart, Treas.
J. M. Reuss, Sec.
R. Williams, S. D.
L. H. Pender, J. D
J. E. Starkey, S.
C. S. Forbes, S.
S. J. Nobles, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — R. L. Carr, R. W. King, S. M. Schultz
Allen, R. H.
Bishop, F. A.
Blow, A. L-
Bibb, J. H.
Brown, W. M.
Brown, Wiley
Benjamin, J- S. C.
Briley, J. A.
Blount, C. A.
Barnhill, W. O.
Cobb, C- C.
Cobb, J. H.
Cobb, Charles
Carr, R. L.
Cherry, J. B., Jr.
Coward, E. A.
Davenport, J. R.
Fleming, J. L-
Forbes, J. R.
Fleming, R. R.
Fleming, W. J.
Forbes, A. A.
Gardner, C. E.
Griffin, A. J.
Harris, H. B.
Llarrington, J. J.
MEMBERS.
Harrington, O. W.
Harding, Henry
Harding, W. F.
Hemby, John
Hardee, D. W.
Hargrove, L. L.
James, F. G.
Joyner, S. V.
Joyner, O. L.
Jackson, M. H.
Jackson, W. R.
King, W. M.
King, R. W.
King, Thomas B.
Lee, W. T.
Lang, W. M.
Lang, M. R.
Laughinghouse,C.O’
Moore, J. R.
Moore, T. R.
Moore, Ira M.
Moore, W. M.
Moore, L. I.
Munford, C. T.
Needham, C. C.
Nichols, W. J.
Priddy, S. V.
Pearce, Wiley
Pearce, B. C.
Pender, W. I.
Reeves, J. R.
Rountree, C. D.
Rountree, L. H.
Rawls, W. S.
Ross, S. R.
Sugg, I. A.
Sugg, J. L.
Skinner, Harry
Schultz, S. M.
Smith, J. W.
Smith, W. G.
Smith, O. P.
Tyson, T. H.
Vines, C. C.
Whichard, D. J.
Whichard, C. B.
Whichard, D. E.
Worthington, W. W.
Whichard, H. W.
Williams, W. R.
Wilson, Frank
Windham, W. G.
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FLAT CREEK LODGE, No. 285— Flat Creek.
Regular Communications Saturday before the second Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
R. W. Kidd, M.
M. L. Nall, S. VV.
W. L. Lenoard, J. W.
E. C. Brewer, Treas.
Geo. L. Finison, Sec.
Brady, M. C.
Brady, J. M.
Brewer, W. H.
Davis, L. H.
Howard, W. H.
Horner, G. W.’
Kidd, R. W. G.
Lenoard, W. M.
MEMBERS.
Myrick, J. M.
Maness, W. T.
McManess, C. E-
Nall, John L.
Nall, W. B.
Purvis, J. M.
Purvis, J. W.
Phillips, J. P.
H. B. Lambert, S. D.
J. C. Jones, J. D.
J. T. Sewell, S.
J. L. Purvis, S.
W. R. Myrick, Tiler.
Riddle, T. L.
Scott, S. M.
Scott, H. B.
Tillman, P. W.
Tyson, T. D.
Welch, B. N.
Welch, Emsely
Welch, C. W.
CEDAR ROCK LODGE, No. 286— Cedar Rock.
Regular Communications third Saturday in each mouth.
OFFICERS.
T. S. Collie, M.
W. M. Boone, S. W.
W. J. Johnson, J. W.
R. R. Boone, Treas.
John A. Coppedge, Sec.
J. B. Glasgow, S. D.
R. B. Gilliam, J. D.
S. L. Parish, S.
N. C. Roland, S.
Jesse Fulgham, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Master and Wardens.
Arrington, B. L.
Bobbitt, Dr. E. H.
Boon, S. M.
Bowden, R. D.
Brown, John
Bunn, J. A.
Coppedge, W. B.
Dean, T. P.
MEMBERS.
Ditz, Aaron
Griffin, B. F.
Harper, H. J.
Holingsworth, D. T.
Lancaster, M. V.
Lancaster, R. W.
Parish, Woodson
Parish, W. A.
Parish, W. G.
Richardson, J. H.
Stokes, T. W.
Sledge, Rev. J. W.
Tucker, W1. T.
Vaughn, C. M.
Stallings, Joe S.
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SALEM LODGE, No. 289 — Winston-Salem.
Regular Communications first Tuesday in each month.
E. A. Ebert, M.
OFFICERS.
P. W. Dalton, S. D
C. S. Hampton, S. W.
E. T. Kapp, J. D.
C. E. Bennett, J. W.
John Green, S.
T. E. Davis, Treas.
•
G. W. Young, S.
Leon Cash, Sec.
Dan Barton, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — E. B. Kearns, W. C. Brown, T. E. Davis
MEMBERS.
Ackerman, E. T.
Albright, L. L-
Bodenhammer, R. H.
Bodenhammer, I. P.
Barrow, H. W.
Butner, S. E.
Brown, W. C.
Brower, J. F.
Cain, C. M.
Cates, W. L.
Dashiell, J. W.
Davis, R. W.
Davis, A. P.
Frazier, H. D.
Farrow, S. B.
Griffith, Miles
Hendricks, Lee
Hendricks, R. L.
Hine, John W.
Hunter, J. W.
Hege, S. A.
Holder, H. H.
Holland, A. H.
Jones, C. M.
Kearns, E. B.
Kinney, J. J.
Kapp, J. L.
Kapp, Thos. E-
Linebacli, H. A.
Lambeth, L. D
Lehman, E- W.
Money, Wiley
Meiuung, A. C.
Moose, J. R.
McClement, F. W.
McCuiston, J. F.
Moore, Calvin
Nicholson, J. T.
Nash, E. W.
Pfohl, A. F.
Pfohl, H. A.
Petree, W. R.
Plunkett, John
Riggs, N. T.
Rich, I. N.
Schott, J. W. T.
Spainhour, W. W.
Smathers, W. G.
Stockton, E. A.
Swaim, W. F.
Sparrow, T. A.
Strickland, E. F.
Vogler, A. C.
Vest, J. L-
Wooten, N. T.
Wall, Turner S.
Wall, G. W.
Walker, W. S.
Watson, A. A.
FRENCH BROAD LODGE, No. 292— Marshall.
Regular Communications Friday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
Van Smith, M.
J. Man. Wallin, S. W.
R. F. Ramsey, J. W.
W. J. Gudger, Treas.
W. C. Sprinkle, Sec.
Cling. Clark, S. D.
M. E. Clark, J. D.
M. L. Gudger, S.
G. W. Bryan, S.
D. E. Wallin, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — W. J. Gudger, W. C. Sprinkle, J. E.
Bryan.
MEMBERS.
Ammons, M. B.
Bishop, J. S.
Bryan, J. E-
Branson, R. N.
Bryan, L- M.
Clark, C. A.
Campbell, H. P.
Eller, W. E.
Fisher, Z. V.
Fulbright, C. S.
Gudger, J. M.
Gudger, H. A.
Gentry, W. J.
Goforth, E. T.
Houston, W. A.
Hensley, J. B.
Henderson, Lee
Henderson, C. A.
Jarrett, John
Jarrett, Zeb B.
Jones, J. N.
Johnson, R. F.
Lawson, F. B.
Lawson, J. C.
Lunsford, J. H.
Martin, J. B.
McDevitt, G. W.
Nelson, J. B.
Nichols, C. A.
Paris, Jobe
Rice, J. E.
Roberts, J. B.
Roberts, W. B.
Rector, Enoch
Redmon, J. J.
Ramsey, Jacob M.
Robertson, G. E-
Roberts, A. J.
Rice, J. B.
Sams, Z.
Sawyer, L. J.
Smith, W. B.
Sams, W. R.
Smith, J. D.
Stewart, Janies
Tillery, B.
Tweed, C. W.
Tillery, W. R.
Wallin, J. M.
Wallin, J. A.
Wilson, J. A.
Wild, J. R.
Wallin, Stephen
Waldrop, G. W.
West, J. N.
Wild, T. F.
Wells, J. E.
VANCE LODGE, No. 293 — Democrat.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before each full moon.
OFFICERS
T. J. Cole, M.
J. L. Corn, S. W.
J. S. Ball, J. W.
W. 1. Beachboard, Treas.
J. H. Woodward, Sec.
Allman, Lewis
Allman, R. D.
Arrowood, S. E.
Arrowood, J. A.
Ammons, John
Anderson, J. W.
Buckner, J. A.
Beachboard, R. W.
Bell, T. G.
MEMBERS.
Bell, O. T.
Bradley, W. T.
Carter, J. D.
Cole, P. G.
Cole, A. C.
Cole, R. H.
Cole, J. A.
Chambers, J. C.
Chambers, J. M.
J. R. Jones, S. D.
A. M. Cole, J. D.
A. C. Cole, S.
Dock Chambers, S.
F. M. Stockton, Tiler.
Chambers, E. J.
Carter, G. D.
Carter, D. E.
Carter, J. A.
Carter, J. G. D.
Cole, A. M.
Davis, J. C.
Garrison, T. J.
Gentry, E. Y.
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Gentry, G. W. T.
Jones, J. R.
Logan, W. E.
Loven, P. M.
Loven, O. A.
Myers, S. L.
Morgan, S. J.
Morgan, J. P.
Sams, J. H.
Sams, J. M.
Scoggins, John
Williams, S. F.
ATLANTIC LODGF, No. 294 — Swan Quarter.
Regular Communications first Saturday of each month and Tuesday
of each Superior Court.
OFFICERS.
W. J. Harris, M.
E. O. Spencer, S. W.
J. W. Swindell, J. W.
R. D. Harris, Treas.
T. R. Benson, Sec.
E. H. Jones, S. D.
W. E. Mason, J. D.
J. M. Watson, S.
Leroy Pedrick, S.
R. W. Howard, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. S. Barnette, J. W. McWilliams, Geo.
W. Brown.
Burrus, J. C.
Bell, E. B.
Burrus, W. P.
Credle, T. M.
Credle, Geo. V.
Dixon, Joseph
Fulcher, T. J.
MEMBERS.
Farrow, W. T.
Gaskins, Geo. H.
Hooten, C. M.
Harris, A. G.
Lee, J. A.
Mason, Jeptha
O’Neal, E- S.
Swindell, L. H.
Swindell, F. D.
Snell, S. L.
Spencer, F. F.
Whedbee, B. F.
Williamson, Geo. W.
West, W. E.
STONEWALL LODGE, No. 296 — Robersonvilee.
Regular Communications Saturday before the third Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
Thos. H. Bailey, M.
Rob. J. Nelson, S. W.
S. B. Wynn, J. W.
J. D. Simpson, Treas.
J. A. Whitney, Sec.
R. T. Andrews, S. D.
J. A. Martin, J. D.
J. E. Barnhill, S.
M. A. Roberson, S.
W. R. Silverthon, Tiler,
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. W. Rose, W. R. Whichard, I. H. Little.
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Andrews, W. G.
Andrews, F. W.
Andrews, G. W.
Andrews, J. D.
Andrews, S. G.
Bunting, J. R.
Brown, R. L.
Betts, A. D.
Barnhill, T. H.
Cherry, A. E.
Cherry, W. R.
Coffield, J. B.
Coffield, T. H.
Crawford, J. C.
Cook, H. B.
Cowen, H. D.
Edminson, J. M
Everett, W. H.
MEMBERS.
Gurganus, W. A.
Granthera, E. B.
Gray, J. J.
Gray, H. A.
Howard, J. W.
Lloyd, J. M.
Ludford, Enoch
Leggett, J. M.
Little, I. H.
Mayo, R. H
Mayo, John
Mason, W T.
Moseley, W. F.
McNaughton, Chas.
McWherter, Z. D.
Purvis, W. R. L.
Purvis, J. R.
Roberson, T. W.
Rodgers, Eli
Ross, S. L.
Rose, J. W.
Strawbridge, Adam
Satterthwite, J. H.
Satterthwite, B. B.
Smith, J. C. '
Taylor, J. L.
Taylor, J. H.
Taylor, T. J.
Thomas, J. W.
Ward, Albert
Wynn, B. T.
White, J. L.
Warren, W. E.
Whichard, W. R.
TOISNOT LODGE, No. 298— Elm City.
Regular Communications second and fourth Mondays in each month
OFFICERS.
J. T. Watson, M.
Jno. L. Bailey, S. W.
J. F. Tilghman, J. W.
E. O. McGowan, Treas.
Theo. B. Winstead, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Wells
Winstead.
Iredell Williams, S. D
S. W. Andrews, J. D.
W. L. Grimmer, S.
J. H. Barkley, S.
O. J. Winstead, Tiler
Dawes, B. E. Thompson, O. J
members.
Bridgers, J. A.
Beland, J. W.
Batts, W. E.
Dawes, Wells
Deans, E H.
Deans, Jno. B.
Everett, David
Friend, J. W.
Gooch, T. A.
Horne, J. M.
Hedgepeth, T. S.
Jordan, H. B.
Land, C. L.
Land, Jno. H.
Pridgen, Jno. I.
Peacock, J. W.
Parker, A. W.
Read, C. L.
Sharp, W. D. P.
Thompson, B. E-
Winstead, D. L.
Winstead, W. E.
Winstead, C. M.
Whitehead, J. R.
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HUNTING CREEK LODGE, No. 299— Eagre Mires.
Regular Communications Friday on or before each full moon.
OFFICERS.
J. M. Crater, M.
E. M. Sale, S. W.
T. B. Angle, J. W.
T. H. Cooper, Treas.
Casey, W. A.
Crater, J. L.
Cox, Joe
Denney, M. E.
Fraley, L- H.
Flecher, J. C.
Gray, Joe
Gough, W. S.
MEMBERS.
Hicks, S. B.
Holler, I.
Holler, E.
Holmnes, B.
Johnson, A. F.
Lanier, D. A.
Messick, W.
Pardue, S.
E. N. Gwyn, Sec.
J. T. Cash, S. D.
R. F. Burke, J. D.
R. W. Crater, Tiler.
Royal, M. A.
Smith, W. H.
Tucker, C. T.
Turberville, R. M.
Vanhoy, W. H.
Wallace, A. F.
Whitlock, J. B.
CLAY LODGE, No. 301 — Hayesvilee.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
W. E. Sanderson, M.
C. C. Standridge, S. W.
W. L. Allison, J. W.
A. O. Allison, Treas.
M. M. Burch, Sec.
G. H. Harglet, S. D
J. M. Sullivan, J. D.
G. W. Sanderson, S.
W. T. Bumgarner, S
J. O. Scroggs, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — S. H. Allison, J. J. Scroggs, R. N. Penland.
Auberry, E- L-
Allison, E. G.
Alexander, J. W.
Alexander, R. R.
Bristol, J. A.
Brooks, J. S.
Brown, A. H.
Curtis, J. D.
Crowder, E. N.
Carter, J. S.
Chambers, S. D.
MEMBERS.
Colman, D. E.
Crawford, W. H.
Curtis, E- S.
Collins, J. R.
England, E. N.
Flemming, G. M.
Franks, D . W.
Galloway, J. M.
Hall, R. M.
Hogsed, W. H.
Huffman, Joseph
Hogsed, S. C.
Herbert, R. L.
Isbell, A. H.
Johnson, Geo. M.
Kitchens, J M.
Kitchens, M. G.
Killian, P. B.
Ledford, J. T.
Leatherwood, A. N.
Lovin, T. C.
Lovin, Vance
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McClure, W. H.
McConnell, W. J. R.
McConnell, E. V.
McClure, A. J.
McGlamery, W. A.
Meuse, J. B.
Mosteller, G. W.
Norton, G. C.
Nichols, J. O.
Owen, J. A.
Platt, W. F.
Passmore, J. H.
Passmore, W. F.
Richardson, S. L.
Reagan, P. M.
Shearer, N. T.
Spivey, J. M.
Sewall, John
Sanderson, G. M. O.
Stover, Rev. J. T.
Shearer, E. T.
Smith, E. M.
Tidwell, J. E.
Thwing, Chas. L.
RIRRINGTON RODGE, No. 302— Rillington.
Regular Communications Saturday before the first Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
J. H. Withers, M.
H. J. McDonald, S. W.
H. D. McDonald, J. W.
C. McArtan, Treas.
B. F. Shaw, Sec.
J. T. Rogers, S. D.
R. Holder, J. D.
M. R. Morgan, Tiler,
Orphan Asylum Committee — C. McArtan, J. R. Grady.
Bryan, James E.
Douglass, Nathan
MEMBERS.
Parker, Gilliam
Stephens, E. J.
Stephens, J. S.
Spears, O. J
EVERGREEN RODGE, No. 303— Johnsonville.
Regular Communications second Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
H. A. Morrison, M.
H. McR. Cameron, S. W.
A. C. Buie, J. W.
J. B. Cameron, Treas.
D. Morrison, Sec.
A. Dorroch, S. D.
K. R. Harmon, J. D.
N. H. McNeill, Tiler,
MEMBERS.
Hobbs, W. B.
Maxwell, John
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PLEASANT HILL LODGE, No. 304— Repose.
Regular Communications first Thursday iu each month.
OFFICERS.
W. B. Nunn, M.
James Stroud, S. W.
W. A. Jones, J. W.
W. W. Penny, Treas.
I. D. Sparrow, Sec.
I. D. Grady, S. D.
Isaac Stroud, Sr., J. D
W. H. Waller, S.
Stephen Stroud, S.
Noah Deaves, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Henry Cunningham, F. M. Smith, W. H.
Waller.
Cunningham, Henry
Cunningham, J. H.
Grady, Whitfield
Hill, E. H.
Jenkins, Perry
members.
King, Ivey
King, W. A.
Powell, J. W.
Phillips, S. H.
Stroud, Isaac, Jr.
Smith, F. M.
Taylor, J. R.
Westbrook, J. H.
LAURINBURG LODGE, No. 305— Laurinburg.
Regular Communications first Tuesday in each month.
officers.
J. R. Bivens, M.
A. A. James, S. W.
W. T. Herndon, J. W.
W. D. James, Treas.
W. H. McLaurin, Sec.
F. L. Bundy, S. D.
K. A. Blue, J. D.
W. J. McDougald, S
R. McRae, S.
H. Peden, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. A. Jones, K. A. Blue, A. A. James,
Cameron, D. B.
Everett, D. K. F.
Fetner, W. H.
Gibson, N. T.
Gibson, W. M.
Giichrist, J. R.
Hall, J.
Hardin, D. Z.
MEMBERS.
Henley, T. L.
John, M. L.
Jones, J. A.
Lucas, L. N.
Monroe, L. A.
McEachin, J. T.
McRae, P.
Omahundra, S.
Quick, H. S.
Shaw, B. S.
Shepherd, W. O.
Stutts, F. L.
Teague, B. F.
Weill, L.
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GALATIA LODGE, No. 306 — Raeford.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
D. A. Blue, M.
J. H. Culbreth, S. W.
J. R. Capps, J. W.
W. J. McCraney,-Treas.
W. J. McCraney, Sec.
Alex. McMillan, S. D.
W. A. Graham, J. D.
Neill Campbell, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — The three principal officers.
Gillis, D. B.
Gillis, J. A.
MEMBERS.
Hunter, J. M. McGill, A. D.
McFadyen, N. N. Mclnnis, Angus
PATTERSON LODGE. No. 307— Mt. Pleasant.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
C. H. Barnhardt, M.
J. B. McAlister, S. W.
A. N. James, J. W.
P. A. Barrier, Treas.
S. T. Sifford, Sec.
J. L- Lefler, S. D.
L. M. Odell, J. D.
A. W. Moose, S.
H. C. Caloway, S.
G. C. Petrea, Tiler,
Orphan Asylum Committee — G. C. Petrea, L. M. Odell, S. T. Sifford
Barnhardt, J. H.
Barrier, H. B.
Barrier, R. W.
Barringer, P. A. G.
Bost, P. A.
Calhoun, W. H., Jr.
Cordell, L. T.
Corzine, R. C.
MEMBERS.
Faggart, D. C.
Foil, G. W.
Hartsell, W. I.
James, C. F.
Kindley, W. R.
Kindley, J. S.
Louder, D. A.
McAlister, H. C.
Neissman, P. M.
Peninger, A. H.
Rinehardt, M. C.
Smith, W. B.
Steffy, S. D.
Smith, C. E.
Thayer, J. H.
Tucker, P. W.
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HATCHER LODGE, No. 310— A. B. Boykin’s.
Regular Communications third Saturday in each month and Tune 24th
William Hinnant, M.
Ashley Boykin, S. W.
John Ricks, J. W.
R. E. Wilson, Treas.
David Daniel, Sec.
and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
D. M. Roberts, S. D.
Ramon Eatrnon, J. D.
J. W. Hales, S.
J. F. O’Neal, S.
A. S. Davis, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — John Ricks, J. W. Hales, W. D. Farmer.
Barnes, E. G.
Bissell, Z. R.
Boykin, L H.
Barnes, J. Q.
Bailey, W. T.
Bailey, A. R.
Bailey, C. D.
Boykin, A. B.
MEMBERS.
Davis, T. C.
Davis, Theophilus
Eatrnon, R. E.
Freman, H. F.
Farmer, J. D.
Farmer, W. D.
Hinton, F. M.
Knight, C. W.
Naron, Iredell
Naron, J. R.
Naron, Melton
Strickland, Calvin
Sanders, W. O.
Williamson, Garry
Williamson, John B.
NOTLA LODGE, No. 312 — Culberson.
Regular Communications third Saturday in each month.
W. A. Nichols, M.
J. R. Harper, S. W.
Johnson Harper, J. W.
J. S. Sheilds, Treas.
W. D. Mason, Sec.
Orphan, Asylum Committee — T
E. B. Barber, S. D.
J. R. Collins, J. D.
J. A. Hawkins, S.
W. F. Anderson, S.
J. P. Patterson, Tiler.
L. Bell, W. I. Tilson.
OFFICERS.
. E- Harper, J.
Arp, A. B.
Arp, J. A.
Arp, A. J.
Arp, J. L.
Amburn, J. H.
Amburn, W. H.
Anderson, W. W.
Bell, Wm. M.
Culberson, H. C.
Casteet, L- R.
members.
Elrod, J. B.
Garland, J. F.
Harris, McW.
Harri's, R. L-
Harris, J. B.
Hawkins, W. J.
Hyde, W. C.
Keith, R. W.
McAlister, L. L.
Morgan, G. W.
Nichols, C. C.
Payne, W. G.
Patterson, G. W.
Peak, C. K.
Smith, W. S.
Silvey, J. M.
Tilson, Jacob
Tilson, J. E.
Walker, C. F.
Young, J. A.
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KING SOLOMON LODGE, No. 313 — Lumber Bridge.
Regular Communications first Saturday in eacli mouth.
OFFICERS.
J. A. P. Conoley, M.
A. L. Shaw, S. W.
J. C. Johnson, J. W.
D. Z. McGugan, Treas.
D. W. McGugan, Sec.
Rev. P. R. Law, S. D
Jeff D. Cobb, f. D.
J. D. McGugan, S.
J. W. Conoley, S.
E. M. Davis, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — N. Shaw, D. B. Lancaster.
Ausley, J. C.
Biggs. D. W.
Cobb, Rev. J. W.
Carver, John V.
Conoley, J. D.
Chason, J. A.
Dickson, R. S.
Everett, L- H.
Fisher, Rev. J. G.
Humphrey, Wm. J.
MEMBERS.
Johnson, M. J.
Johnson, A. G.
McNair, R. G.
McMillan, Rod.
McMillan, Z. T.
McGugan, D. B.
McNeill, Neill
Morley, M. L.
Morley, A. J.
McNatt, J. C. D.
Livingston, Geo. W
Pittman, Rev. A. R.
Smith, D. A.
Smith, John
Smith, W. W.
Sealy, N.
Tolar, T. J.
Thagard, S. L.
Thagard, A. C.
Wilder, J. A.
NEW LEBANON LODGE, No. 314— South Mills.
Regular Communications first Friday in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. A. Foster, M.
Dr. J. L. Lister, S. W.
E. B. Granger, J. W.
W. J. Williams, Treas.
Geo. H. Riggs, Sec.
Eph. Overman, S. D.
Jno. F. Foster, J. D.
Jno. D. Jordan, S.
Evan Overton, S.
William Betts, Tiler,
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. J. Williams, Dr. J. L. Lister.
Brite, S. M.
Bullock, Robert
Foster, W. C.
MEMBERS.
Lynch, Wib.
Sims, Chas. E-
Perry, W. E.
Pool, Jos. W.
Pearce, Chas. W.
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KINSTON LODGE, No. 316— Kinston.
Regular Communications first and third Mondays in each month.
OFFICERS.
L- J- Mewborne, M.
W. D. Pollock, S. W.
T. H. Faulkner, J. W,
D. Oettinger, Treas.
Y. T. Ormond, Sec.
Ray Pollock, S. D.
Chas. F. Harvey, J. D.
Geo. B. Webb, S.
Henry Tull, S.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Geo. B. Webb, Jno. A. Pollock, Chas. F.
Harvey.
MEMBERS.
Grainger, J. W.
Harvey, L.
Harvey, C. Felix
Lewis, R. H.
Oettinger, A.
Pollock, Jno. A.
Parrott A. D.
White, J. M.
Woodley, C. B.
EUREKA LODGE, No. 317 — Eeizabeth City.
Regular Communications every Tuesday from October 1st to June 1st;
from June 1st to October 1st, first Tuesday in each month.
OFFICERS.
Dr. J. B. Griggs, M.
C. W. Grice, S. W.
C. C. Barnard, J. W.
W. W. Mann, Treas.
L. C. Oakley, Sec.
F. M. Grice, S. D.
M. Wescott, J. D.
L. Selig, S.
W. H. Ballard, S.
J. C. Benbury, Tiler,
Orphan Asylum Committee — E- F. Sawyer, B. F. Spence, W. H. Ballard.
Aydlett, J. H.
Bungart, P. J.
Burruss, Z. G.
Bray, B. F.
Bunting, A. F.
Bliven, C. B.
Ball, M. L.
Bradford, D. B.
Brothers, Geo. W.
Crawford, J. H.
Cotton, J. K.
'Cohoon, A. L. ' «
Colona, B. A.
MEMBERS.
Combs, Jno. B.
Dailey, N. W.
Daniels, E. R.
Daniels, C. B.
Ethridge, Jesse B.
Evans, R. C.
Evans, Jno. W.
Ethridge, A. H.
Flora, J. B.
Forbes, M. M.
Glover, W. C.
Gray, A. T.
Gray, L. H.
Gold, Thos.
Gray, C. H.
Griggs, W. W.
Gallop, Peter G.
Gallop, D. T.
Griffin, W. J.
Hayman, M. D.
Hayman, L- L.
Hayman, Jefferson D
Hayman, D. W.
Harris, Elisha
Hooper, J. A.
Hooper, E. O.
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Hobbs, James R.
Hill, Elijah W.
Harney, Geo. W.
Jackson, Lemuel
John, Poletnan
Kramer, Jno. A.
Lamb, E- F.
Lennon, Wm. P.
Meekins, John W.
Mercer, B. F.
Midge tt, L. B.
Midgett, John D.
Mellick, P. W.
Mellick, Camden W.
Mann, Thos. J.
Miller, C. C.
McMullen, P. W.
Meekins, I. M.
Mercer, William C.
Meekins, Theodore S.
Old, J. Y.
Old, W. T.
Pugh, Wm. St. Clair
Pugh, David M.
Parsons, Thos. F.
Pugh, Major C.
Pugh, L. John
Pendleton, A. L.
Pendleton, Geo. B.
Rollinson, S. M. S.
Rollinson, W, H.
Robinson, C. H.
Sawyer, M. N.
Snowden, M. H.
Shepherd, E. J.
Smith, T. F.
Smith, R. W.
Simpson, A. J.
Sanderlin, Thos. N.
Salomonsky, Isaac
Styron, Oliver G.
Stowe, A. J.
Simons, D. M.
Snow’den, J. H.
Tarkenton, R. B.
Thompson, F. G.
Tillett, Willis
Tillett, Isaac E.
White, Dallas P.
White, J. T.
Whitehurst, R. T.
Wood, J. Q. A.
Whitehurst, D. C.
Willey, E. S.
Whitcomb, T. T.
Wilcox, Thos. P.
Weisel, Moses
Wilson, T. B.
Zeigler, F. H.
WILMINGTON LODGE, No. 319 — Wilmington.
Regular Communications third Tuesday in each month.
OFFICERS.
Eric Norden, M.
R. C. Cantwell, S. W.
W. B. Cooper, J. W,
W. G. A. Otersen, Treas.
Thos. F. Bagley, Sec.
W. A. Johnson, S. D.
Geo. S. Boylan, J. D.
W. P. Monroe, S.
W. F. Carpenter, S.
Thos. H, Johnson, Tiler,
Orphan Asylum Committee — John H. Hardin, W. P. Oldham, Isaac
Bear.
MEMBERS.
Atkinson, Jno. W.
Abbott, C. H.
Boatwright, Jno. L.
Bridgers, P. L-
Berg, James
Baynard, C. M.
Cranmer, J. B.
Croom, M. F.
Cantwell, J. L.
Davis, M. T.
Davis, W. J.
Fennell, H. G.
Grant, R. H.
Graeme, Thomas
Gordon, J. E.
Gordon, C. E.
Gaylor, Walter
Heide, A. S.
Harper, Jno. W.
Howell, A. J.
Hanby, Jno. H.
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Harris, George
Hamtne, R. F.
Kellum, H. W.
Kure, H. A.
King, Samuel A.
Karr, John A.
Lawrence, J. R.
McKoy, W. B.
Monroe, Jas. W.
Morton, Geo. L.
Mills, F. T.
McGowan, Jas M.
Northrop, Samuel
Northorp, H. W.
Nathan, A. A.
Norfleet, Eustace
Paddison, R. P.
Paddison, A. H.
Plummer, J. W.
Robinson, C. H.
Russell, B. R.
Schwarz, Charles
Sneed, E. H.
Stewart, J. C.
Scott, John W.
Seares, W. T.
Sprunt, T. E.
Smith, James D.
Worth, B. G.
Wentzensen, H.
Woolvin, James F.
Wilkins, W. L.
Williams, R. E.
Webster, J. D.
SELMA LODGE, No. 320 — Seema.
Regular Communications first Saturday and third Friday in each month.
M. F. Nordau, M.
Iredell Battin, S. W.
OFFICERS.
W. H. Call, S. D.
Troy Battin, J. D.
W. A. J. Hinnant, J.
W.
Ira T. Rains, S.
W. H. Etheridge, Treas.
Y. D. Vinson, Sec.
C. C. Battin, S.
H. D. Hood, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. H. Etheredge,W. A. J. Hinnant, Wesley
Battin.
MEMBERS.
Avery, W. D.
Hare, W. H.
Plummer, L. H.
Broadwell, D. J.
Hopkins, G. P.
Perkins, D. B.
Brown, Condary
Hopkins, J. T.
Rains, Jack
Blankenship, W. Ii.
Hines, J. M.
Rains, Ira T.
Crumpler, W. W.
Horner, M. C.
Richardson, Chas.
Crooks, J. A.
Henry, L. B.
Richardson, Wm.
Corbette, J. T.
Jones, W. H.
Renfrow, R. G.
Edgerton, N. E-
Lloyd, B. H.
Roberts, W. B.
Edwards, W. T.
McLeod, Duncan
Smith, C. W.
Edwards, M D.
Noble, A. M.
Seay, T. G.
Eason, R. R.
Narron, J. A.
Spiers, J. A., Jr.
Earp, H. E.
Oliver, J. M.
Talton, Chas.
Fields, W. H.
Parrish, B. D.
Taylor, J.
Graves, D. H.
Parker, Jesse
Underhill, J. A., Sr.
Green, M. V.
Pearce, H. B.
Worley, J. H.
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WHITE HILL LODGE, No. 321— White Hill.
Regular Communications third Saturday in each month and June 24th
and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
W. G. King, M.
J. M. Coffer, S. W.
J. J. Spivy, J. W.
K. Wicker, Treas.
Hugh Jackson, Sec.
Orphan Asylum. Committee — Hugh Jackson, H.
MEMBERS.
Cole, J. M.
Jackson, Herbert
Jackson, A. McG.
McDonald, J. W. R.
Mclver, M. D.
McNeill, M. D.
McPherson, Hugh
Riddle, Kato
Spivy, J. D.
J. A. Wicker, S. D.
J. C. Mathis, J. D.
B. W. Spivy, S.
Abel Riddle, Tiler.
Jackson, K. WTcker.
Seawell, A. J.
Spivy, G. W.
Spivy, W. C.
Spivy, B. W.
GRANITE LODGE, No. 322— MT. Airy.
Regular Communications first and third Tuesdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
S. P. Graves, M.
W. P. Gilmer, S. I
John Leitch, S. W.
Ed. Davis, J. D.
J. M. Hollingsworth, J
. W.
S. M. Hale, S.
R. H. Leonard, Treas.
George W. Lee, S.
Hugh Monroe, Sec.
J. P. Easley, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — John Leitch, W.
MEMBERS.
P. Gilmer, W. G. Foy.
Ashby, T. B.
Davis, W. R.
Lewis, J. C.
Allred, S. N.
Fulton, J. M.
Lee, G. W.
Armfield, M. H.
Graves, S. P.
Montgomery, Tyra
Barker, J. E-
Griffith, R. F.
MacArthur, W. 0.
Belton, J. I.
Herring, W. J.
Newbill, W. C.
Belton, J. P.
Hancock, C. I.
Patterson, W. E.
Boyer, H. K.
Hale, S. M.
Paddison, J. R.
Bowman, A. G.
Hatcher, J. O.
Parker, J. M.
Cos, W. E.
Jones, Poet
Patterson, J. M.
Curtis, F. H.
Jokley, J. A.
Powell, J. G.
Clark, H. C.
Lewis, C. W.
Pinkston, C. L.
Davis, Joe
Lowry, T. J.
Redman, R. W.
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Reeves, J. T.
Sparger, W. S.
Sparger, James
Simmons, W. W.
Simmons, J. W.
Short, A. C.
Shoemaker, A. C
Schafer, H.
Sleight, W. F.
Taylor, C. F.
Trotter, A. G.
Ward, C. E.
West, I. W.
Walker, J. H.
Wagoner, Sanford
Wall, W. M.
WENTWORTH LODGE, No. 324— Wentworth.
OFFICERS.
J. A. Scales, M.
Samuel Ellington, S. W.
Shade Martin, J. W.
W. T. Williams, Treas.
W. M. Chambers, Sec.
R. D. Reid, S. D.
J. J. McCargo, J. D.
W. C. Smothers, S.
C. W. Mobley, S.
S. B. Wray, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — R. D. Reid, R. M. Cardwell, J. B. Elling-
ton.
MEMBERS.
Cardwell, R. M.
Ellington, J. B.
Ellington, E. P.
Griffin, W. L.
Irvin, R. E.
King, S. M.
Malloy, D. M.
Malloy, Tlios. S.
Nance, Geo. A.
Scales, C. H.
Scales, P. H.
Snead, R. L.
FALLING CREEK LODGE, No. 325— Grantham’s.
Regular Communications Saturday before the third Sunday in each
month and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
M. E. Cox, M.
J110. W. Britt, Sr., S.
J. R. Brown, J. W.
F. B. Jordan, Treas.
Best, T. W.
Blackman, S. W.
Britt, Geo. B.
Britt, L. R.
Best, Robt. R.
Britt, Juo. W., Jr.
Best, Richard S.
Britt, James R.
W.
MEMBERS.
Caps, J. A.
Farmer, Moses B.
Grantham, D. A.
Grantham, A. A.
Grantham, G. E.
Grantham, W. K.
Jordan, John A.
Jinnett, John R.
John L. Tadlocke, Sec.
Daniel Wadsworth, S. D.
D. F. Thompson, J. D.
L. B. Warrick, Tiler.
Jordan, Richard A.
Johnson, James H.
Jordan, F. F.
Keen, James G.
Keen, Alonzo R.
Lane, W. D.
Lane, J. F.
Massengill, R. H.
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McWilliams, Robert
McCullen, Lewis
Odom, J. H.
Odom, James M.
Price, C. B.
Rose, Wm. M.
Sutton, J. W.
Stephens, E. A.
Stephens, J. A.
Smith, J. R.
Thompson, Samuel
Warrick, Counsil
Wadsworth, P. S.
Warrick, Joe S.
Warrick, James
WINTON LODGE, No. 327 — Winton.
Regular Communications second Thursday and fourth Saturday in
each month.
OFFICERS.
J. A. Northcott, M.
E. B. Vaughan, S. W.
S. S. Daniel, J. W.
E. C. Baker, Treas.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. A.
Daniel.
C. F. Griffin, Sec.
J. T. Matthews, S. D.
H. H. Davis, J. D.
J. E. Jones, Tiler.
Northcott, E. B. Vaughan, S. S.
Brinkley, J. T.
Cotton, J. A.
Carman, G. E.
Hoggard, N. S.
Holmes, D. H.
Jones, J. L.
MEMBERS.
Jones, H. H.
Lowery, W. R.
Lowe, J. S.
McGlaughan, W. D.
McGlaughan, J. O.
Miller, J. C.
Miller, W. W.
Matthews, G. T.
Newsome, A. T.
Taylor, W. H.
Woodley, D. E.
MATTAMUSKEET LODGE, No. 328— Amity Academy.
Regular Communications fourth Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
Henry S. Gibbs, M.
Robert Jennette, S. W.
James G. Weston, J. W.
Israel B. Watson, Treas.
William V. Bonner, Sec.
Thomas Hv Jennette, S. D.
William A. Rollins, J. D.
Edwin L. Gibbs, S.
Ormond T. Credle, S.
Martin V. White, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Henry B.
Robert Jennette.
Spencer,
Barber, Rev. Sam’l S.
Clayton, John M.
Cox, James A.
Cox, Walter S.
Credle, Hugh B.
Gaskins, Gilbert F.
Gibbs, James A.
members.
Gibbs, Dr. Oscar H.
Harriss, John G.
Mann, Julian S.
Mann, Thomas C.
Sadler, David G.
Spencer, Henry B.
William A. Rollins,
Spencer, Thomas B.
Spencer, Walter H.
Swindell, Albion B.
Watson, .Daniel M.
Weston, Samuel W.
White, Robert R.
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BLACK CREEK LODGE, No. 330— Brack Creek.
Regular Communications second Saturday in each month and 24th of j
June.
OFFICERS.
Barnes Daniel, M.
Jonathan Tomlinson, S. W.
I. L. Newsom, J. W.
I. C. Rice, Treas.
Orphan Asylum Committee — A. B. Collier,
som.
R. L. Paschall, Sec.
H. R. Hoover, S. D.
Robert Raper, J. D.
Jonathan Daniel, Tiler.
Robert Raper, I. L. New-
MEMBERS.
Capps, C. B. Daniel, Jacob
Daniel, David Hays, Dr. L- O.
Lucas, J. H.
Yelverton, W. E.
BAYBORO LODGE, No. 331 — Bayboro.
Regular Communications fourth Saturday in each month.
officers.
W. D. Alfred, M.
S. W. McClees, S. W.
J. M. Caron, J. W.
J. T. Cooper, Treas.
L. G. Hinnant, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — S. W. McClees,
MEMBERS.
Leroy Harper, S. D.
W. B. Daniels, J. D.
R. M. Daniels, S.
D. P. Lee, S.
J. W. Miller, Tiler.
D. B. Hooker, S. J. Clark.
Abbott, D. H.
Babbett, C. M.
Campen, Samuel
Credle, W. T.
Clark, S. J.
Delamar, S. M.
Delamar, J. E.
Hooker, Daniel B.
Hooker, Nathan
Haskins, Claud
Lee, Alexander
Paul, John F.
Roberts, W. T.
Stephens, L- C.
Simons, W. W.
Terriell, F. G.
Wharton, R. P.
Yates, F. P.
ASHEPOLE LODGE, No. 335 — Rowland.
Regular Communications second Wednesday in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. J. Faircloth, Jr., Sec.
D. W. Bullock, S. D.
S. B. Thompson, J. D.
A. T. Jackson, Tiler.
Dr. F. Alex Norment, M.
N. T. McLean, S. W.
Dr. Howard Reedy, J. W.
Arch McLean, Treas.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — A. McLean, W. J. Paircloth, Jr., Dr.
Howard Reedy.
MEMBERS.
Alford, W. C.
McKay, D. J.
Cox, C. B.
Faircloth, W. J., Sr.
Hedgpeth, L. Z.
Easterling, T. C.
Stafford, A. G.
Bond, R. S.
Atkinson, R. A.
Graham, W. H.
McEachern, J, A.
McCormoc, John A.
Bullock, Evander
Gaddy, N. W.
McKenar, A. T.
McKay, A. G.
McCallum, J. C.
IONIC DODGE, No. 337— Kittrell.
Regular Communications first Friday in each month.
J. P. Sugg, M.
OFFICERS.
R. M. Person, Sec
G. R. Davis, S. W.
J. M. Harris, S. D
C. W. Raney, J. W.
Arch Tippitt, J. D
I. T. Hunt, Treas.
J. S. Hunt, Tiler.
Capehart, A. S.
MEMBERS.
Fuller, C. E.
Horrell, W. A.
Fuller, J. H.
Gill, D. H.
Tippitt, J. C.
FAIRVIEW LODGE, No. 339 — King’s Mountain.
Regular Communications second Monday in each month and June 24th
and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
L. A. Bikle, M.
T. W. Kendrick, S. W.
G. W. McAllister, J. W.
J. C. Bumgardner, Treas.
L. T. Mann, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — L. A. Bikle,
McAllister.
MEMBERS.
Dilling, C. A. Garrett, R. H. Sugg, R. S.
R. T. Culp, S. D.
R. S. Plank, J. D.
P. S. Baker, S.
F. Dilling, S.
J. J. Falls, Tiler.
T. W. Kendrick, G. W.
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HARMONY HODGE, No. 340 — Pikevieee.
Regular Communications first Thursday in each month. •
OFFICERS.
Albert Aycock, M. J. W. Rouse, S. D.
J. E. Davis, S. W. H. E. Sulivan, J. D.
J. M. Perkins, J. W. R. C. Crawford, S.
E. T Crawford, Treas. W. D. Blaylock, S.
N. B. Berger, Sec. Peter Forehand, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — T. T. Pate, J. E. Davis, J. H. Shackleford.
members.
Arrington, B. F.
Hooks, J. G.
Person, Dr. J. E.
Bailey, N. H.
Hooks, C. D.
Perkins, Geo. W.
Best, W. H.
Hicks, C. D.
Pittman, R. G.
Barnes, W. M.
Jinnett, B. G.
Rose, W. D.
Batten, John W.
Lancaster, Levi
Stuckey, W. H.
Davis, Z. P.
Lancaster, Daniel
Smith, J. P.
Davis, G. W.
Lewis, Dr. G. W.
Smith, John W.
Davis, J . D.
McCall, F. B.
Stancil, John W.
Downing, John W.
Newman, Geo. W.
Shackleford, J. H.
Dawson, J. C.
Overman, J. B.
Sasser, J. W.
Dardin, W. G.
Phillips, L. T.
Sasser, W. A.
Edgerton, N. P.
Pippin, E. G.
Scott, B. F.
Edgerton, E- P.
Pate, S. G.
Tyndall, J. B.
Eatmon, John W.
Pate, T. T.
Underwood, D. S.
Howell, S. R.
Peacock, P. L
Warrell, J. S.
Howell, Wm.
Hooks, J. B.
Powell, D. A.
Warrell, J. D.
ROCK SPRING LODGE, No.
341 — Denver.
Regular Communications Friday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
Dr. H. H. Abernathy, M.
D. Cherry, S. W.
A. H. King, J. W.
C. R. Kelley, Treas.
MEMBERS.
J. W. Little, Sec.
A. Lee Cherry, S. D.
L. A. Cherry, J. D.
G. S. Mullen, Tiler.
Alexander, Dr. J. R.
Drum, E. A.
Smith, R. A.
Abernathy, J. S.
Goodson, S. V.
Sherrill, Dr. J. A.
Caldwell, J. E. A.
Heldernan, D. S.
Sherrill, M. W.
Cornelius, J. H.
Hager, M. S. P.
Shrouce, J. H.
Cornelius, R. F.
Drum, D. H.
Little, F. L.
Little, A. P.
Thompson, A. R.
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HICKORY LODGE, No. 343— Hickory.
Regular Communications first Monday in April, May, June, July,
August, and June 24th. First and third Mondays in Octo-
ber, November, December, January, February,
March, and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
E. P. White, S. D.
H. H. Abee, J. D.
F. A. Clinard, S.
H. H. Gerling, S.
J. A. Seaboch, Tiler.
A. A. Yoder, G. E. Bisaner, J. D. Elliott.
MEMBERS.
Alexander, R. L.
Fowler, L. A.
Moore, J. O.
Alexander, J. L-
Fry, R. B.
Martin, J. A.
Beck, J. D.
Geitner, C. H.
Poovy, J. A.
Bolch, M. A.
Geitner, G. PI.
Suttlemyre, H. S.
Beard, J. B.
Hawn, D. E.
Seagle, N. M.
Berry, L. A.
Hanna, J. W.
Setzer, J. S.
Bisaner, T. P.
Hendley, E. E.
Stirewalt, J. V.
Berry, S. E.
Hutton, A. B.
Satterwhite, B. M.
Bisaner, G. E.
Jones, J. C.
Shuford, W. J.
Cilley, J. L.
Kaylor, J. W.
Sigmon, R. L.
Downes, J. F.
Klutz, F. A.
Totten, L. M.
Deal, M. 0.
Lyrely, J. L.
White, W. A.
Elliott, J. W.
Lyrely, Eubert
White, R. L.
Elliott, H. F.
Lyrely, Walker
Wiggs, T. J.
Elliott, J. D.
McIntosh, A.
Whiteside, Dr. B. F.
Field, T. E.
Marshal, A. W.
Whitener, R. V.
Flowers, Dr. Cyrus
Menzies, W. B.
Yoder, A. A.
J. W. Shuford, M.
J. L- Murphy, S. W.
C. M. Shuford, J. W.
L. G. Hay, Treas.
J. S. Leonard, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee —
N. F. REID LODGE, No. 344 — High Point.
Regular Communications second Monday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. H. Adams, Sec.
Geo. A. Alcott, S. I).
D. H. Hall, J. D.
J. N. Crouch, Tiler.
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Chas. Ragan, M.
J. L. Parish, S. W.
N. G. Kirkman, J. W.
D. H. Parnell, Treas.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — Thos. H. Patten, J. L. Parish, A. B.
Horuey.
MEMBERS.
Alcott, G. A.
Holt, j. R
Parnell, D. H.
Adams, J. H.
Horney, A. B.
Parish, J. L.
Bell, R. J.
Hall, D. H.
Pitts, H. C.
Brown, O.
Harris, J. W.
Patten, T. H.
Crouch, J. N.
Johnson, Chas. J.
Ragan, W. H.
Crouch, R. H.
Jarrell, N. C.
Ring, W. A.
Clark, D. L.
Jones, W. C.
Richardson, O. M
Collins, F. J.
Kirkman, N. G.
Ragan, Chas.
Crowell, Geo. H
Kirkman, J. E.
Richardson, J. B.
Council, A W.
Kellum, C. E.
Snow, E. A.
Denny, W. C.
Lindsay, J. A.
Steele, E. D.
Dodomead, A. J .
Leak, D. S.
Smith, W. P.
Davis, R. L.
Millis, J. IT.
Stanton, D. A.
Davis, S. L-
Matton, Geo. A.
Welch, J. J.
Guy re, J. M.
Pickett, F. M.
York, I. I.
STANLY LODGE, No. 348— Albemarle.
Regular Communications first and third Fridays in each month.
OFFICERS.
Joseph D. Bacon, M.
Sebron B. Kluttz, S. W.
Virgil A. Whittey, J. W.
Thomas C. Hearne, Treas.
Walter B. Bell, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — S. B.
George A. Winecoff, S. D.
Charles L. Cotton, J. D.
George W. Rogers, S.
Howell A. Lowder, S.
J. Luther Sides, Tiler.
Kluttz, W. B. Bell, C. L. Cotton.
Anderson, J. N.
Barnhardt, J. B.
Earner, Jacob
Bivens, J. D.
Blythe, J. R.
Clark, J. A.
Dunn, W. L.
Efird, J. S.
Foreman, D. F.
Farrell, Edward
Hudson, H. M.
MEMBERS.
Huneycutt, S. S.
Hatley, J. R.
Howard, O. P.
Harris, J. M.
Johnson, T. H.
Kluttz, J. R.
Lowder, O. G.
Lowder, R. L.
Lilly, W. T.
Leonard, J. W.
Moody, J. A.
Moore, J. E.
Neal, J. T. F.
Poplin, Nathan
Rummage, D. F.
Ross,J. O.
Reynolds, W- G.
Smith, G. C.
Smith, E. N.
Simpson, Jno. B.
Tucker, W. A.
Wilhoit, F. M.
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DURHAM LODGE, No. 352— Durham.
Regular Communications second and fourth Tuesdays in each month
and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
Ed. T. Rollins, M.
J. Scott Burch, S. W.
L. J. Jones, J. W.
T. E. Cheek, Treas.
J. Southgate, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee-
A. Cobb, S. D.
J. W. Turner, J. D.
L. W. Leigh, S.
M. Bane, S.
W. S. Holloway, Tiler
-J. Scott Burch, M. Bane, H. F. Edwards.
MEMBERS.
Barbee, C. H.
Hall, J. C.
Parker, C. J. D.
Bass, H. J.
Heartt, L- D.
Parrish, E. J.
Battle, F. G.
Herndon, C. M.
Pearce, W. T.
Beall, G. H.
Hicks, W. N.
Pearson, C. T.
Beavers, G. T.
Holloway, R. L.
Pruden, A. A.
Blackwell, J. W.
Hornaday, J. M.
Rapport, S.
Blackwell, W. T.
Horne, W. A.
Reams, C. F.
Biggs, J. C.
Hutchins, J. W.
Reams, H. A.
Bobbitt, J. F.
Ivey, E. C.
Reams, S. H.
Brett, G. E.
Jacobs, J. M.
Rollins, W. P.
Brooks, J. W.
Jenkins, W. A.
Saks, J.
Brown, A. H.
Johnson, N. M.
Scolneck, B.
Carden, J. J.
Kelley, R.
Seeman, H.
Carr, I. N.
King, C. E.
Seeman, J. F.
Carr, J. S.
King, J. H.
Sharpe, F. M.
Cates, Robert
Kueffner, R.
Slater, W. A.
Cheatham, R. I.
Langston, G. D.
Southgate, J. H.
Christian, J. B.
Leary, S. L.
Taylor, C. C.
Cohen, E.
Levy, D. W.
Taylor, J. F.
Crews, T. J.
Lewith, J. L.
Toms, C. W.
Dunlap, E. C.
Lindsay, R. L.
Tyree, B. L.
Edwards, H. F.
Markham, F. D.
Walker, A.
Fallon, W. M.
Massey, C. W.
Watkins, W. L.
Faucett, A. J.
Mathes, D. W.
Weatherspoon, W. H
Ferrell, C. E-
McClees, T. L-
Wellons, J. W.
Gibbs, T. E.
McCracken, J. T.
Whitley, J. E.
Goley, C. H.
McDowell, F. C.
Wood, W. E.
Goley, G. F.
Owens, J. E.
Woodall, J. A.
Goodson, J. W.
Grissom, L- W.
Page, P. C.
Woods, J. H.
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MORAVIAN LODGE, No. 353 — Moravian Fares.
Regular Communications Friday on or before each full moon.
officers.
C. Laws, M.
S. H. Bobbitt, S. W.
W. R. Bradshaw, J. W.
T. P. Paslier, Treas.
J. T. Hubbard, Sec.
J. L. Hemphill, S. D.
R. M. Edcil, J. D.
T. B. Duncan, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — R. A. Spainhour, W. R. Bradshaw, W. C.
Meadows.
MEMBERS.
Bentley, W. A.
Bentley, W. F.
Costner, J. H.
Davis, J. W.
Davis, S. C.
Ellis, J. H.
Ferguson, L. C.
Ferguson, J. S.
Ginniugs, S. J.
Hendren, F. B.
Laws, R. D.
Laws, G. W.
Meadows, F. D.
Meadows, R. C.
Reavis, I. C.
Reavis, L. M.
Steelman, A. W.
Triplett, A. L.
Welborn, H. M.
Welborn, J. T.
Welborn, J. M.
DELLAPLANE LODGE, No. 355— Roaring River.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before each full moon.
R. W. S. Pegram, M.
J. V. Bangus, S. W.
J. R. Byrd, J. W.
OFFICERS.
J. F. Parks, S. D.
W. T. Johnson, J. D.
N. T. Jarvis, S.
S. J. Greenwood, Treas.
C. C. Wright, Sec.
MEMBERS.
L- D. Parks, S.
Wm. A. Johnson, Tiler.
Blackburn, E. M.
Foster, J. A.
Johnson, Eli
Brewer, J. A.
Glass, John
Nance, F. A.
Clieatwood, C. M.
Holland, C. H.
Somers, R. A.
FALLSTON LODGE, No. 356— Fallston.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before each full moon and
June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
J. H. Lackey, M.
S. T. Kendrick, S. W.
J. M. London, J. W.
W. D. Lackey, Treas.
C. C. Stamey, Sec.
S. C. Hendrick, S. D
C. W. Hoyle, J. D.
J. F. Bass, S.
Eli Clay, S.
J. B. Stroup, Tiler.
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Beam, J. A.
Beam, D. C.
Beam, M. C.
Beam, J. F.
Biggerstaff, H. H.
Blanton, J. J.
Cornwell, A. H.
Dickson, E. D.
Elliotte, J. M.
Gardner, E. S.
Gludden, A. C.
Goode, W. A.
Grigg, L. R.
MEMBERS.
Gantt, W. A.
Hauser, E. A.
Lackey, S. A.
Lackey, T. O.
Lackey, S. P.
Lackey, R. A.
Leadford, Joseph
Lackey, Hoke
McGinnis, W. J.
McFalls, H. G.
Moss, W. H.
Parker, C. D.
Royster, J. H.
Royster, G. S.
Stroup, C. D.
Stamey, T. A.
Stamey, C. C.
Spake, C. C.
Turner, M. V
Vaughn, T. C.
Williams, A. F.
Warlick, J. G.
Wright, L. S.
Wright, J. C.
EAST LA PORTE LODGE, No. 358 — East la Porte.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
V. F. Brown, M.
J. H. Painter, S. W.
J. M. Rigdon, J. W.
John Wike, Treas.
A. A. Nichols, Sec.
J. A. Hooper, S. D.
W. W. Brown, J. D.
H. F. Baird, S.
J. M. Leopard, S.
E. A. Galloway, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — V. F. Brown, J. H. Painter, J. M. Rigdon.
Brown, R. H.
Brown, W. A.
Brown, H. A.
Brown, J. M.
Coward, Nathan
Coward, J. D.
Davis, Javan
MEMBERS.
Davier, D. D.
Hooper, A. M.
Hooper, C. L-
Hooper, T. L.
Middleton, D. W.
Queen, B. N.
Oueen, A. C.
Stephens, R. H.
Shook, J. M.
Smith, R. L-
Smith, J. H.
Wike, John T.
Wilson, William
MOUNT VERNON LODGE, No. 359— Oriental.
Regular Communications second Thursday in each month and 27th of
December.
W. T. Caho, M.
C. R. McClees, S. W.
R. L. Woodard, J. W.
L- B. Midgett, Treas.
G. W. Brite, Sec.
OFFICFtRS.
W. H. Powers, S. D.
G. K. Dixon, J. D.
C. H. Fowler, S.
S. W. Ferebee, S.
T. A. Hadder, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — W. T. Caho, C. R. McClees, R. L. Woodard.
MEMBERS.
Mason, D. A. Pickels, E. H. Stephens, A. H.
MAYON LODGE, No. 360— Ammon
Regular Communications third Saturday in each month.
OFEICERS.
G. H. Smith, M.
O. J. Tatom, S. W.
0. Register, J. W.
A. H. Corn, Treas.
B. F. Tatom, Sec.
MEMBERS.
I. J. Cain, S. D.
O. J. Gardner, J. D.
G. Simmons, S.
J. B. Core, S.
R. W. Tatom, Tiler.
Armstrong, D. L.
Geddie, D. C.
Roberson, Newton
Beard, D. E.
Gardner, L. H.
Smith, T. M.
Bordeaux, Sylvester
Gardner, F. T.
.Smith, Jas. W.
Chaffin, L. M.
Hocutt, A.
Smith, J. Wash.
Cain, R. B.
Hall, J. W.
Tatom, M. Mcl.
Culbeth, W. H.
Johnson, Simeon
Tatom, A. D.
Dunham, W. C.
Lyon, C. C.
Tatom, A. L.
Edge, M. O.
Melvin, W. S.
Tatom, R. P.
Edge, Evander
Fowler, W. S.
Marshburn, R. H.
Mulford, J. R.
White, R. S.
SNOW LODGE, No. 363— Sugar Grove.
Regular Communications first Saturday in each month and June 24th
and December 27th.
OFEICERS.
A. S. Adams, M.
D. F. Mast, S. W.
J. R. Hagaman, J. W.
F. P. Mast, Treas.
J. J. Mast, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. S. Farthing, D
MEMBERS.
Adams, T. P. Councill, J. P. Church, C. A.
Adams, David Church, E. M. Church, M. G.
Brown, G. W. Calloway, W. H. Chappie, J. C.
E. C. Harmon, S. D.
F. M. Holsclaw, J. D.
B. J. Councill, S.
C. D. Taylor, S.
J. C. Mast, Tiler.
. F. Baird, J. C. Jones.
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Calloway, W. V.
Church, C. C.
Dougherty, H. P.
Dougherty, J. S.
Farthing, L. W.
Farthing, J. W.
Greer, E. M.
Greer, R. E.
Glenn, J. L.
Greene, J. B.
Gaultney, A. C.
Gaultney, L. V.
Harman, W. M.
Horton, J. W.
Hayse, G. W.
Harman, D. C.
Hagaman, Hugh
Hilliard, C. C.
Harman, J. C.
Harman, John A.
Harman, John C.
Holsclaw, W. W.
Johnson, J. C.
Jones, E- F.
Jones, W. F.
Lewis, J. S.
Mast, J. H.
Mast, John H.
Phillips, J. B.
Phipps, C. W.
Penley, W. H.
Reese, J. J. T.
Reese, J. F.
Reese, W. G.
Shull, J. M.
Shull, J. C.
Shull, S. P.
Sherwood, J. J. L.
Stokes, J. M.
Thomas, J. W.
Taylor, T. H.
Vuncanon, William
Williams, J. B.
Ward, Simon
Woodring, Daniel
Ward, John
CRAIGHEAD LODGE, No. 366 — Huntersville.
Regular Communications first and third Fridays in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. B. Blythe, M.
N. C. Frazier, S. W.
T. M. Van Pelt, J. W.
W. S. Caldwell, Treas
J. B. Nicholson, Sec.
S. A. Johnston, S. D.
S. T. Holbrook, J. D.
C. L. Barnett, S.
J. H. Barnhill, S.
J. A. McKay, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. B. Nicholson, J. A. McKay, J. S. Sossa-
man.
Alexander, G. W.
Alexander, A. W.
Allison, T. Y.
Barker, R. H. W.
Barnett, C. L.
Blythe, A. C.
Bigham, M. W.
Bigham, L. S.
Brown, W. W.
Carver, D. B.
Choat, J. L.
Grey, J. H.
Harris, R. C.
MEMBERS.
Holbrook, J. Me.
Holbrook, W. E.
Hunter, T. W.
Hunter, J. Me.
Hunter, D. F.
Hunter, E. R.
Jordan, W. R.
Johnston, J. L.
Little, C. H.
Maybery, J. T.
Morris, C. F.
Moore, J. W.
Mullen, S. L.
McKay, T. R.
Nesbit, W. A.
Patterson, J. N.
Pope, J. L.
Ritch, H. E.
Sloan, D. L.
Stenhouse, W. A.
Stewart, C. E.
Sossaman, J. S.
Van Pelt, M. W.
Walker, C. E.
While, W. H.
Woodside, J. M.
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GASTONIA LODGE, No. 369— Gastonia.
Regular Communications first and third Fridays in each month.
W. J. Clifford, M.
F. A. Costner, S. W.
S. N. Boyce, J. W.
W. Y. Warren, Treas.
Jas. A. Page, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Conn ,
Pegram.
Armstrong, C. B.
Bradley, Caleb
Bradley, B. G.
Babington, R. B.
Beal, J. B.
Barringer, W. D.
Beard, J . B.
Cook, P. H.
Craig, D. J.
Craig, J. H.
Craig, J. Robt.
Culp, J. P.
Carroll, J. W.
Cavis, C. H.
Dixon, J. K.
Dickson, M. L.
Dickson, O. S.
Dicksdn, W. T.
OFFICERS.
ittee — T. N. Kendrick,
MEMBERS.
Davis, W. N.
Faires, E. C.
Forbes, H. F.
Ford, W. R.
Falls, J. L.
Falls, Dr P. R.
Gallant, W. L.
Gattis, W. H.
Holland, Capt. J. Q.
Holland, | no. F.
Hopper, G. C.
Hutchinson, W. L.
Lancaster, M. C.
Lindsay, R. M.
McLean, A. A.
McLean, R. C.
McLean, J . D. B.
Nolen, C. M.
L. C. Pegram, S. D.
T. M. Fayssoux, J. D.
J. R. Quinn, S.
T. N. Kendrick, S.
J. E. Lindsay, Tiler.
B. M. Holland, T. C
Ormond, B. M.
Quinn, J. L.
Rankin, W. T.
Rankin, R. F.
Rankin, L- E-
Riddle, J. B. F.
Ratchford, R. A.
Reid, Dr. R. M.
Shannon, J. R.
Thompson, M. A.
Thompson, J. F.
Terrill, T. B.
Welch, L. R.
Wilson, T. W.
White, J. O.
Wilkinson, A. S.
Whitesides, Dr. J. C.
Woods, Starr C.
MARS HILL LODGE, No. 370 — Mars Hide.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before each full moon.
OFFICERS.
Geo. W. Anders, M.
H. H. Buckner, S. W.
J. G. Allen, J. W.
W. W. Marchbanks, Treas.
C. L. Sams, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — H. M.
J. L. Phillips, S. D.
S. A. Corn, J. D.
Welsey Buckner, S.
W. G. Ingle, S.
A. O. Carter, Tiler.
Fagan, R. H. Buckner, W. G. Ingle.
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Allen, W. R.
MEMBERS.
Corn, George W.
Murray, W. B.
Anderson, O. J.
Cody, W. M.
Murray, T. J.
Brown, W. A.
Clark, T. C.
McPeters, T. M.
Baird, J. H.
Duyck, J. M.
Peck, J. B.
Buckner, M. W.
English, W. C.
Ray, J. M.
Buckner, P.
Forrister, M. F.
Ramsey, J. E.
Buckner, M. C.
Forrister, J. R.
Ramsey, J. R.
Briggs, L. E.
Fisher, J. H.
Ramsey, J. C.
Briggs, J. W.
Gibbs, J. J.
Ramsey, 0. H.
Carter, E.
Gibbs, J. M.
Ramsey, L- B.
Carter, H. J.
Huff, L. C.
Sams, J. R.
Carter, J. B.
Keith, J. R.
Sprinkle, J. R.
Chambers, H. J.
Metcalf, W. P.
Sigmon, Charles A.
Corn, E. A.
BETHEL LODGE, No. 372— Morven.
Regular Communications Friday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
J. C. Hines, M.
C. H. Dunn, S. W.
J. L. Pratt, J. W.
Joel Gulledge, Treas.
M. L. Ham, Sec.
J. W. Covington, S. D
H. E. Braswell, J. D.
G. A. Martin, S.
E. F. Mathis, S.
R. J. Baucom, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — C. B. Covington, J. L. Pratt, Wm. Stubbs.
Burr, John
Covington, C. B.
Cooley, E. E-
Dunn, J. R.
Dunn, W. C.
MEMBERS.
Dunn, E. A.
Gulledge, B. F.
Gibson, N. W.
Huntley, E- L.
Little, W. L.
Moore, J. E.
Ross, R. D.
Stubbs, Wm,
Swink, P. H
Teal, A. C.
STATE LINE LODGE, No. 375— Grover.
Regular Communications Wednesday on or before each full moon.
OFFICERS.
J. A. Ellis, M. J- M. Patterson, S. D.
D. J. Keeter, S. W. * J. W. Sheppard, J. D.
Geo. Oates, J. W. L. J. Turner, S.
J. E. North, Treas. M. L- Beam, S.
J. F. Jenkins, Sec. D. R. Bell, Tiler.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. F. Jenkins, D. J. Keeter, J. E. North.
Adams, W. D.
Bettis, E. A.
Borders, M.
Bell, T. F.
Bell, J. F.
Beam, M. L.
MEMBERS.
Crocker, J. R.
Camp, N. A.
Dover, J. A.
Price, R. B.
Price, T. B.
Patterson, E. A.
Patterson, P. D.
Patterson, W. S.
Robinson, S. A.
Turner, G. P.
Turner, L- J.
YOUNGSVILLE LODGE, No. 377 — Youngsvieee.
Regular Communications Saturday before the first Sunday and Friday
before the third Sunday in each month.
officers.
J. W. Woodlief, M.
L. H. Allred, S. W.
R. E- Timberlake, J. W.
Perry Wiggins, Treas.
J. C. Winston, Sec.
I. F. Fuller, S. D.
J. R. Pierce, J. D.
J. C. Williams, S.
W. H. Green, S.
E. L. Hicks, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. S. Timberlake, W. T. Young, J. W.
Woodlief.
members.
Allen, T. H.
Burrows, E- W.
Bobbit, J. P.
Clifton, J. A.
Fuller, J. W.
Green, R. F.
Green, S. T.
Green, J. A.
Hatch, P. R.
Hicks, B. T.
Holden, R. T.
King, J. L.
Mitchell, I. W.
Moss, T. L.
Mitchell, J. F.
Perry, G. M.
Patterson, John
Riddick, I. G.
Timberlake, C. E.
Timberlake, J. S.
Timberlake, E- W.
Timberlake, W. B.
Winston, J. W.
Winston, J. E.
Winston, C. C.
Winston, J. M.
Wall, G. H.
Wiggins, G. H.
Young, W. T.
SEABOARD LODGE, No. 378— Seaboard.
Regular Communications Thursday preceding full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
James M. Balmer, M.
J. G. L. Crocker, S. W.
T. R. Hargraves, J. W.
A. B. Martin, Treas.
W. T. Novell e, Sec.
Joseph H. Harris, S. D.
W. R. Vick, J. D.
F. M. Reese, S.
J. E. Cuthrell, S.
G. E. Allen, Tiler.
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Bradley, Rev. Rufus
Deloatch, Columbus
Gay, Robert S.
Grubbs, W. F.
Johnson, Jos. T.
Lanier, B. H.
COHARIE LODGE, No. 379 — Salemburg.
Regular Communications Saturday before the fourth Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
W. J. Butler, M.
J. M. Spell, S. W.
A. E. Underwood, J. W.
J. C. Howard, Treas.
Street Brewer, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. C. Howard, D
MEMBERS.
Autry, R. O. Hales, R. A. Sessoms, David
Butler, Hon. Marion Honeycutt, Reden Spell, Owen
Culbreth, J. D. O.
Joseph Warren, S. D.
W. J. Faircloth, J. D.
D. D. Sikes, S.
R. W. Howard, S.
Edward Williams, Tiler.
. D. Sikes, Owen Spell.
MEMBERS.
Magee, Columbus
Pruden, W. H.
Powell, J. H.
Reid, A. H.
Stancell, Dr. R. H.
Stancell, John G.
Stancell, B. D.
Stephenson, W. U.
Taylor, John W.
Taylor, L. L.
GRANVILLE LODGE, No. 380 — Grissom.
Regular Communications fourth Saturday in each month.
J. S. Mangum, M.
E. G. Davis, S. W.
W. H. Garner, J. W
I. S. Bailey, Treas.
J. D. Davis, Sec.
OFFICERS.
S. N. Little, S. D.
J. W. Allen, J. D.
H. H. O’Neal, S.
G. R. Fuller, S.
J. W. Whelous, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. H. Watkins, J. W. Davis, A. C. O’Neal.
Allen, P. R.
Andrews, J. W.
Bragg, G. M.
Bailey, W. D.
Davis, B. H.
Davis, A. L.
Davis, A. J.
MEMBERS.
Jones, H. L.
Kieth, D. M.
Lane, B. F.
Lo-wry, G. W.
Little, C. M.
Medlin, B. M.
Mangum, W. J.
Pearce, Joseph
Powell, J. T.
Smith, Willis
Walker, B.
York, E. T.
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SHAWNEE LODGE, No. 382— Sherrill’s Ford.
OFFICERS.
W. A. Day, M.
W. J. Gilleland, S. W.
S. C. Brown, J. W.
M. T. Bynum, Treas.
A. E. Brown, Sec.
A. L. Erwin, S. D.
T. F. Bradburu, J. D
E. J. Goodson, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. A. Day, W. J. Gilleland, S. C. Brown
MEMBERS.
Alison, W. T.
Annas, B. U.
Brown, Osborn
Holdsclaw, M. A.
Ingram, Taylor
Sherrill, Jason
Wilkinson, Sidney
White, R. A.
Wilson, W. E.
REIDSVILLE LODGE, No. 384— Reidsvirre.
Regular Communications first Thursday in each month and June 24th
and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
A. J. Ellington, M.
R. L- Hubbard, S. W.
R. W. Hutchinson, J. W .pro tem.
J. N. Craig, Treas.
R. M. B. Ellington, Sec.
J. M. Tesh, S. W.
J. F. Stuttz, J. D.
R. L. Saunders, S
F. M. Pinuix, S.
S. Roman, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. N. Craig, Wm. Lindsey, J. C. Gardiner.
Clack, J. F.
Clark, J110.
Lindsey, Wm.
Powell, R. S.
Saunders, R. C.
MEMBERS.
Swann, W. C.
Snipes, W. M.
Smith, N. K.
Tesh, J. F.
Tucker, F. P.
Ware, W. P.
Ware, S. H.
Womack, J. H.
Sharp, J. H.
SCOTTVILLE LODGE, No. 385— Orney.
Regular Communications Friday after the full moon in each month.
OFFICERS.
M. H. Goodman, M.
J. T. Shepherd, S. W.
W. A. J. Fowlkes, J. W.
John Grubb, Treas.
W. F. Jones, Sec.
G. B. Austin, S. D.
A. C. Black, J. D.
J. P. Shepherd, S.
W. R. Jones, S.
J. W. Phouts, Tiler,
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Orphan Asylum Committee — C. G. Fowlkes, W. F. Jones, A. C. Black.
MEMBERS.
Black, George
Jones, P. E-
Shepherd, N. C., Jr.
Cox, S. V.
Jenkins, S. L-, Jr.
Span, W. A.
Cole, Wilborn
Landreth, J. T.
Tucker, J. M.
Church, Martin
Pasley, Wiley
Wagoner, A. J.
Grubb, D. J.
Phipps, J. F.
Williams, J. J.
Jones, M. F.
Spicer, J. C.
Woodie, Fred
Jones, E- F.
Shepherd, E- B.
PIGEON
RIVER LODGE, No
. 386 — Canton.
Regular Communications Thursday on or after the full moon in eac
month.
OFFICERS.
J. H. Chapman, M.
A. L. Smathers, S. D.
J. M. Curtis, S. W.
S. W. Smathers, J. D.
W. T. Sharp, J. W.
N. T. Harkins, S.
M. J. Mearse, Treas.
J. Z. Smathers, S.
J. W. Scott, Sec.
J. F. Cabe, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — E. R. Cook, J.
B. Poteat, M. L. Warley.
MEMBERS.
Abel, J. R.
Mease, J. N.
Smathers, G. R.
Cabe, W. P.
Mease, W. M.
Smathers, W. S.
Henson, W. M.
Mease, G. W.
Willis, W. V.
Henson, W. B.
Rogers, J. M.
Winfield, R.
Henson, J. H.
Russell, J. H.
Smathers, W. J.
Hampton, W. J.
Robinson, I. B.
Willis, C. H.
Johnson, W. M.
Smatbers, H. A.
Williams, W. T.
Mingus, C. L.
Smathers, John B.
Waldrop, W. E.
Morgan, A. L.
KEDRON LODGE, No. 387— Hendersonville.
Regular Communications Friday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
Chas. F. Toms, M.
R. L. Fletcher, S. W.
O. E. Blythe, J. W.
J. P. Rickman, Treas.
K. G. Morris, Sec.
W. C. Rector, S. D.
J. P. Embler, J. D.
J. Williams, S.
S. J. Blythe, S.
N. Buckner, Tiler.
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Allen, Clyde
Anderson, H. S.
Blythe, J. J.
Bryson, Sam
Blythe, O. V. F.
Barnett, W. A. J.
Currie, James H
Clayton, G. M.
Carson, T. B.
Clark, W. E.
Davis, W. J.
Edwards, W. F.
Ewart, H. G.
Gibson, S. S.
MEMBERS.
Garland, W. A.
Greer, C. M.
Holmes, George
Hamilton, S. W.
Hood, W. A.
Justus, M. T.
Jones, G. S.
Justice, Z. K.
Justice, J. J.
Johnson, L. E.
Merrell, B. A.
Maloney, J. F.
Nichols, T. C.
Orr, J. L.
Pace, C. M.
Pace, D. S.
Stepp, J. M.
Smith, W. A.
Shepherd, J.
Shepherd, Thomas
Toms, M. C.
Waldrop, J. G.
Wainright, R.
Williams, J. C.
Wilson, C. E.
Yelton, James
MOORESBORO LODGE, No. 388 — Mooresboro.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before each full moon.
OFFICERS.
John E- Green, M.
D. B. Hughes, S. D
R. Champion, S. W.
M. M McKiney, J.
H. C. Burrus, J. W.
H. F. Turner, S.
J. M. Green, Treas.
G. T. Green, S.
T. D. Scruggs, Sec.
W. J. Curtis, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — B. P. Green, A.
S. Moore, G. E- Green.
MEMBERS.
Benson, Joseph
Green, B. P.
Hamrick, A.
Blanton, J. V.
Good, J. M.
Hamrick, T. J.
Benson, John
Green, H. H.
Hamrick, John
Bridges, A. A.
Gillespie, J. D.
Hopper, B. T.
Benson,’ J. W.
Green, Dixon
Jolly, J. R.
Blanton, A. B.
Gillespie, W. G.
Jolly, J. E.
Bridges, S. J.
Hamrick, L- M.
Jones, C.
Bridges, J. C.
Hamrick, O. O.
Jolly, H. S.
Beam, M. S.
Hamrick, David
Kiser, W. A.
Blanton, W. M.
Hallman, W. A.
Martin, M. G.
Crumley. D. S.
Holland, T. M.
Matheny, J. R.
Dailey, L. C.
Hill, G. W.
McBrayer, J. H.
Davis, M. L.
Hamrick, 0. A.
McSwain, M. A.
Durham, R. A.
Hawkins, J. M.
McGinnis, R. S.
Delinger, C. J.
Humphries, E- A.
McSwain, Barnet
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Martin, J. C.
McSwain, W. E.
Pruett, G. B.
Palmer, G. B.
Robison, S. C.
Robison, A. M.
Royster, S. S.
Simmons, J. D.
Simmons, G. E.
Stroud, Wm.
Turner, R. C.
Whisnant, A. J.
Withe row, J. P. D.
Witherow, W. P.
Walker, Z. R.
TEMPERANCE LODGE, No. 389— Coxville.
Regular Communications third Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. W. Cannon, M.
Charles Gardner, S. W.
E- A. Lancaster, J. W.
L. B. Burney, Treas.
Walter Gardner, Sec.
Israel Moore, S. D.
S. W. Burney, J. D.
C. J. Atkinson, S.
C. F. Joyner, S.
C. S. Smith, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. J. Cannon, Israel Moore, C. S. Smith.
MEMBERS.
Bland, J. C.
Buck, J. D.
Cannon, W. J.
Causey, Josephus
Cox, Archibald
Cox, G. W.
Cox, L. L.
Edwards, L. A.
Moore, Iredell
Wilson, John A.
Wetherington, I. K
COPELAND LODGE, No. 390— Copeland.
Regular Communications third Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. M. Norman, M.
R. A. Doss, S. W.
Joe Dobson, J. W.
W. R. Doss, Treas.
Orphan Asylum Committee — S. Y. Simpson,
terson.
J. M. Doss, Sec.
R. H. Marion, S. D.
J. T. Foindexter, J. D.
J. H. Doss, Tiler.
T. J. Marsh, S. M. Pat-
members.
Atkinson, S. J.
Blackwood, J. T.
Bowles, J. L.
Butcher, J. W.
Bowles, J. W.
Bryant, G. H.
Badgette, B. W.
Bryant, T. W.
Bryant, T. T.
Badgette, R S.
Doss, A. L.
Danley, J. A.
Doss, James T.
Edwards, S. A.
Edmonds, Preston
Flippin, Dr. S. T.
Holyfield, H.
Hill, Wesley
Holyfield, J. L.
Johnson, D. VI.
Johnson, T. A .
Johnson, Solomon
Johnson, Charley
Logan, Rev. T. J.
Malory, Nicholas
Norman, W. R .
Perkins, J. T.
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Perkins, L. H.
Pilson, W. L-
Patterson, J. L.
Patterson, J. W
Perkins, W. C.
Reid, A. J.
Simpson, R. W.
Stanley, E. W.
Simpson, C. E.
Simpson, G. F.
Simpson, J. A.
Simpson, H. V.
Wood, Syon
Wall, J. C.
Williams, J. F.
LEBANON LODGE, No. 391— Hope Miees.
Regular Communications first and third Saturdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. C. Culbreath, M. J. T. Bynum, S. D.
F. H. Cotton, S. W. F. Bearckman, J. D
J. W. King, J. W. G. B. Elkins, S.
W. D. Campbell, Treas. W. H. Builard, S.
W. H. Gurley, Sec. T. Hamilton, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. D. West, F. H. Cotton, Frank Gailes.
Biggs, Alex
Biggs, J. S.
Biggs, J • B.
Barnes, A. S.
Buie, N. A.
Berckman, E- D.
Blackman, R. F.
Calhoon, C. H.
Caviniess, J. E.
Cameron, D. M
Culbreath, T. A.
Cotton, S. H.
MEMBERS.
Fry, J. A.
Fearcloth, Calvin
Fowler, G. A.
Gailes, John
Grady, J. C
Gilbert, J. C.
Grimes, B. F.
Harrington, A. A.
Harrison, J. A.
Jackson, C. A.
Morgan, Matthew
McPhail, J. H.
Pattiashall, T. J.
Ritter, J. T.
Smith, W. E.
Tyson, W. T.
West, Samuel
Wade, David
White, S. A.
Webb, J. B.
West, J. B.
Stamey, H. G.
Morgan, Charles
WHITE ROCK LODGE, No. 392— White Rock.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
Barnett Shelton, M.
A. J. Franklin, S. W.
Shad Franklin, J. W.
W. E. King, Treas.
J. S. Ray, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — R. M.
Reece.
Joseph Rice, S. D.
John Grindstaff, J. D.
Thomas Cook, S.
Geo. Gunter, S.
E. K. Franklin, Tiler.
Gahagan, John Shelton, J. H.
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Chandler, H. H.
Crow, Levi A.
Davis, S. M.
Franklin, Andrew
Franklin, Richard
Gunter, Chas.
Gunter, M.
Gunter, G. W.
MEMBERS.
Gahagan, Wade
Gentry, W. R.
Gunter, D. R.
Hensley, Ephraim
Hensley, W. A.
Hagan, L. M.
Norton, J. T.
Rice, Spencer
Rice, Thos.
Shelton, Cal.
Shelton, Peter
Stanton, Jno.
Tweed, Gilliard
Tweed, A. G.
Thomas, W. M.
TALLY HO LODGE, No. 393— Stem.
Regular Communications Saturday before the first Sunday in each
month and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
E. D. Hunt, M.
J. E. Duncan, S. W.
P. T. Farobow, J. W.
W. B. Cash, Treas.
L. W. Hobgood, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Wa
C. H. Washington, S. D.
Jas. Mangum, J. D.
E. P. Wheeler, S.
W. D. Thomasson, S.
L. N. Cavaniss, Tiler.
Johnson, James Mangum.
MEMBERS.
Bradsher, James O.
Brown, J. W.
Bragg, A. H.
Bragg, H. M.
Bullock, B. C.
Crews, D. G.
Green, S. A.
Gooch, H. R.
Gooch, W. S.
Gooch, D. T.
Green, J. M.
Hopkins, J. C.
Haskins, J. L.
Hunt, W. T.
Hunt, W. L.
Jones, W. H.
Kimball, W. D
Longmire, S. A.
Minor, Lee
Overton, A. N.
Puckett, W. H.
Renn, J. J.
Renn, J. R.
Stem, T. H.
Washington, W. H.
Walters, T. G.
Walters, A.
Wade, R. V.
Walters, J. R.
Washington, S. P.
Wilkins, A. C.
Webb, W. J.
CAPE FEAR LODGE, No. 394— Little River Academy.
Regular Communications fourth Saturday in each month.
officers.
J. E. Lucas, M.
R. R. Bell, S. W.
Holly Lucas, J. W.
Josiah Jackson, Treas.
R. D. Collier, Sec.
Angus Ray, S. D.
H. C. Stuart, J. D.
V/. P. Collier, S.
S. J. A. Darden, S.
J. H. Wilkins, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — J. T. McCorqodale, A. D. McNeill, James
Rayner.
MEMBERS.
Adams, W. G.
Adams, J. C.
Andrews, J. C.
Allen, R. M.
Byrd, H. R.
Byrd, Theo.
Buie, D. M. D.
Collier, Robert
Collier, E. F.
Culbreth, D. C.
Davis, J. M.
t
Lucas, Hugh
Lucas, Jonas
Norris, Alexander
Parker, E. W.
Rayner, Kineth
Rayner, J. A.
Reaves, D. W.
Trulove, B. F.
Walker, A. B.
Williams, W. L
Wilkins, J. H.
Wilson, R. B.
ORIENT LODGE, No. 395 — Wilmington.
Regular Communications first Wednesday in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. P.Toomer, M.
A. M. Waddell, Jr., S. W.
W. D. McMillan, J. W.
J. C. Munds, Treas.
C. C. Brown, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. H.
Munds.
B. B. Jackson, S. D.
J. D. Bellamy, Jr., J. D.
W. D. McMillan, Jr., S.
C. Giles, Jr., S.
T. II. Johnson, Tiler.
Chadbourn, S. P. Adams, J. T.
Adams, S. P.
Armstrong, J. S.
Bailey, E. P.
Baltzer, E. V.
Bidgood, C. W.
Blair, J. J.
Bradley,, R.
Burbank, T. S*
Chadbourn, J. H., Jr.
Chadbourn, Wm. H.
Chase, J. C.
Cooper, C. H.
Emerson, T. M.
Evans, DeL.
Fennell, B. F.
French, G. Z.
Gleaves, B.
members.
Gouvenerer, M. F. H.
Hanks, J. B.
Holden, H. K.
Holliday, W. W.
Jackson, J. W.
Kenan, W. R.
Love, D. C.
Love, O. F.
Martin, W. A.
McEachern, D.
Morton, P. C., Jr.
Munds, J. T.
Myers, C. D.
Noble, M. C. S.
Ricket, R. H.
Pigford, E. S.
Robinson, W. M.
Short, H. B.
Skelding, A. B.
Smallbones, H. G.
Smallbones, W.
Southerland, C. B.
Stedman, F. H.
Taylor, J. D.
Toon, J. L.
Turrentine, J. R., Jr.
Warren, W. J.
Watters, J. H.
Willard, E- P.
Willard, M. S.
Williams, D. M.
Williams, J. R.
Williams, W. A.
Worth, C. W.
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OXFORD LODGE, No. 396— Oxford.
Regular Communications first Monday in each month.
OFFICERS.
Dr. B. K. Hays, M.
S. W. Minor, S. W.
Dr. T. L. Booth, J. W.
W. L. Mitchell, Treas.
E. W. Jones, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Dr. D. C. White
MEMBERS.
Ballou, W. B.
Hunt, Dr. J. G.
Parham, F. E-
Booth, Dr. S. D.
Hundley, J. C.
Royster, B. S.
Baird, J. M.
Horner, J. C.
Royster, J. F.
Crenshaw, E. H.
Hays, F. B.
Rogers, W. F.
Currin, W. D.
Hicks, W. J.
Rogers, C. M.
Currin, J. M.
Hilliard, F. W.
Smith, S. H.
Eatman, D.
King, J. S.
Spencer, A. B.
Eatman, H. H.
Knott, R. F.
Spencer, A. F.
Gooch, D. J.
Long, W. J.
Taylor, Dr. L. C.
Gregory, F. H
Landis, W.
Turner, J. C.
Plobgood, F. P.
Longmire, S. H.
Wood, J. K.
Hicks, A. A.
Mitchell, W. Z.
Williams, Dr. J. B
Hobgood, F. P., Jr.
Marsh, Dr. R. H.
BALD CREEK LODGE, No. 397— Bald Creek.
Regular Communications Saturdaj' after each full moon and June 24th
and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
Dr. C. P. Edwards, M.
W. T. Tomberlin, S. W.
E. J. Angel, J- W.
J. B. Young, Treas.
Levi Hamlin, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — A. F. Hensley, J
gins.
MEMBERS.
Angel, T. H Burton, Walter Ballard, W. M.
Angel, M. Y. Buckner, L. S. Briggs, W. K.
Angel, E. M. Boone, E- Briggs, H. W.
S. J. Angel, S. D.
S. T. Hensley, J. D.
S. F. Radford, S.
H. M. Radford, S.
M. L. Briggs, Tiler.
. B. Hensley, T. H. Hig-
C. A. Carroll, S. D.
J. J. Medford, J. D.
P. Bullock, S.
A. Hobgood, S.
John W. Hunt, Tiler.
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Banks, E. C.
Ballard, J. M.
Buckner, L. C.
Bailey, Smith
Blackwell, B. F.
Boone, T. W.
Beaver, J. T.
Chandler, J. M.
Chandler, N. E.
Cole, Alexander
Duck, D. L.
Duck, D. C.
Deaton, T. J.
Duncan, D. W.
Duck, E. E.
English, Dr. I. L.
English, W. M.
English, J. D.
English, S. H.
English, S. L.
English, J. H.
Edwards, J. W.
Edwards, C. W.
Edwards, J. M.
Edwards, T. H.
English, R. E.
Fox, W. M.
Foster, R. F.
Hensley, W.
Hensley, J. B.
Hensley, A. F.
Hensley, W. P.
Hensley, D. E.
Hensley, S. B.
Hensley, J. G.
Hensley, J. F.
Hensley, W. L.
Hensley, J. D.
Hensley, E. H.
Hensley, J. M.
Huntsinger, Peter
Holcombe, M. P.
Howe, C. H.
Holcombe, H. A.
Horton, N. W.
Honeycutt, M. C.
Higgins, T. H.
Ingle, W. C.
King, J. D.
King, R. W.
Bedford, Noah
McPeters, C. L.
McIntosh, B. J.
McIntosh, A. C.
Metcalf, Rev. C. C.
Metcalf, L. J.
Metcalf, J. M.
McCurry, W. M.
McCurry, B. M.
McAlister, A.
Murray, Abe
Neill, E. E.
Proffitt, J. Z.
Proffitt, A. H.
Proffitt, H. A.
Proffitt, E. M.
Parker, J. H.
Ponder, J. S.
Peek, John
Porchia, J. A.
Phillips, John
Phillips, A. L.
Roberson, J. C.
Roberson, S. W.
Ray, T. E.
Rice, H. L.
Rice, J. M.
Rice, N. D.
Rice, Albert
Rogers, J. R.
Taylor, W. R.
Tomberlin, G. W.
Tomberlin, G. M.
Wilson, J. T.
Wilson, James
Wilson, W. T.
Wilson, W. B.
Whittington, B. B.
Waycaster, W. J.
CENTRE LODGE, No. 398— Jupiter.
Regular Communications Saturday after the full moon in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. M. Pickens, M.
W. H. Hunter, S. W.
S. M. Buckner, J. W.
C. E- Roberts, Treas.
L. W. Roberts, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. H.
Pickens.
W. J. Cloutz, S. D.
P. A. Fair, J. D.
W. C. McKinney, S.
W. O. McDavis, S.
J. D. Fox, Tiler.
Hunter, C. E. Roberts, J. M.
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Blankingship, G. H.
Barrett, J. W.
Eller, R. C.
Hunter, J. B.
MEMBERS.
Hunter, J. W.
Pickens, R. A.
Rector, J. P.
Roberts, W. J.
Roberts, M. F.
Tweed, E. E.
CONOHO LODGE, No. 399 — Hamilton.
Regular Communications first Friday in each month.
OFFICERS.
V. R. Taylor, M.
L. R- Aynge, S. W.
Dr. B. L. Long, J. W.
A. Sherrod, Treas.
T. I. Gray, Sec.
Armstrong, Frank
Brown, H.
Bunting, C. L.
Clark, H. I.
Cooper, Sully
Council, T. T.
Crider, J. F.
Coltrain, G. W.
Darden, T. E.
Davenport, J. L. '
Gardner, J. Z.
MEMBERS.
Hobbs, J. A.
Hyman, T. L.
Hurst, W. K.
Howard, George W.
Hardy, W. T.
Jones, H. H.
Leggett, Stanly
Leggett, J. A.
Moore, H. H.
Maxwell, L. R.
S. L- Pritchard, S. D.
J. R. Leggett, J. D.
J. L. Barnhill, S.
W. T. Grimes, S.
McH. Leggett, Tiler.
Purvis, J. H.
Parker, M.
Salsbury, J. G.
Sherrod, B. B.
Sherrod, W. B.
Waldo, J. T.
Whitehurst, Z. M.
Woodard, H. H.
White, W. S.
White, Alex
JOPPA LODGE, No. 401 — Old Fort.
Regular Communications second and fourth Saturdays in each month
and December 27 th.
OFFICERS.
J. B. Burgiu, M.
J. W. Hemphill, S. W.
J. H. Blaylock, J. W.
J. S. Bradley, Treas.
G. W. Sandlin, Sec.
W. M. Blackwelder, S. D
W. H. Martin, J. D.
T. T. Hemphill, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — -W. W. Clark, W. H. Kelley, J. L- Slepp.
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Aderholt, J. C.
Abernathy, C. F.
Adams, E. T.
Burgin, J. L.
Burgin, C. S.
Burgin, C. H.
Burgin, W. B.
Burgin, A. P.
Clark, W. W.
Crawford, H. P.
MEMBERS.
Dobson, D. J.
Gilbert, T. E.
Goodson, W. M.
Hemphill, F. E.
Harmon, J. F.
Kelley, W. H.
Lythe, T. T.
Mashburn, P. H.
Moore, W. B.
Saulsbury, J. H.
Simpson, R. E.
Souther, W. Y.
Slepp, J. L.
Savage, R. F.
Ter ell, W. P.
Trexler, J. A.
Williams, L. W.
Winslow, E. L.
Walker, V. P.
Young, M. A.
DOBSON LODGE, No. 402— Dobson.
Regular Communications first Monday in each month and June 24th
and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
Dr. J. R. Woltz, M.
H. E. Jarrell, S. W.
Dr. W. C. Folger, J. W.
N. J. Reid, Treas.
Jno. H. Poindexter, Sec.
Edward Isaacks, S. D.
J. W. Cox, J. D.
G. M. Jervis, S.
Robert Callehan, S.
Jno. W. Moore, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Com.
Slaydon.
Amburn, J. M.
Adams, J, A.
Davis, Rev. Abner
Folger, A. R.
Golding, T. D.
Golding, W. B.
Greenwood, R. L.
Gentry, Rev. S. E.
Hamlin, T. V.
ittee — Rev. C. H. Stc
MEMBERS.
Isaacks, W. N.
Isaacks, Joseph
Jarrell, R. A.
Lewellyn, Rev. J. H.
McCann, J. M.
Martin, W. R.
Matthews, W. C.
Matthews, J. J.
, G. W. Oakley, James
Mann, C. F.
Morris, B.
Parker, H. L.
Richards, J. H.
Simmons, C. W.
Setliff, Rev. J. J.
Vernon, T. M.
York, J. M.
SILER CITY LODGE, No. 403— Sirer City.
Regular Communications Saturday before the first Sunday in each
month.
S. S. Smith, M.
G. A. Smith, S. W.
J. I. Morris, J. W.
W. A. Teague, Treas.
A. A. Lambe, Sec.
OFFICERS.
J. H. Siler, S. D.
H. H. Hilliard, J. D.
J. George Hanner, S.
J. Q. Smith, S.
A. G. Williams, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — G. A. Smith,
Teague.
MEMBERS.
H. H. Hilliard, W. A.
Cook, J. J.
Edwards, W. W.
Fox, D. G.
Fox, E. W.
Fox, Himer
Guthrie, J. A.
Hackney, J. L.
Harper, W. M.
Hadley, G. M.
Mann, I. N.
Maners, Elias
Smith, J. L.
Seigner, W. C.
FARMERS LODGE, No. 404— Farmers.
Regular Communications Saturday before the first Sunday in each
month.
A. A. Loflin, M. N. W. Newby, S. D.
J. C. Reeves, J. W. W. R. Lewis, J. D.
E. A. Steed, Treas. W. D. Ingram, Tiler.
C. H. Lewis, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — A. A. Loflin, J. C. Reeves.
MEMBERS.
Fuller, L. K. Howard, E. N. Myers, R. W.
OCEAN LODGE, No. 405— Morehead City.
Regular Communications first Friday in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. M. Webb, M.
A. D. Willis, S. W.
G. L. Arthur, J. W.
T. D. Webb, Treas.
J. W. Willis, Jr., Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. A.
Willis.
W. J. Wallace, S. D.
Harry Moore, J. D.
E. D. Arthur, S.
G. S. Jennett, S.
S. W. Wade, Tiler.
Ballou, Walter Guthrie, A. D
Arthur, E. D.
Arthur, J. M.
Ballou, W. A.
Bell, C. A.
Emery, Zack
Guthrie, Walter
MEMBERS.
Jackson, W. H.
Lewis, J. E-
Long, J. C.
Moore, Alex.
Moore, R. G.
Murdock, A.
Pelletier, W. T
Royal, J. J.
Stame3r, E. L.
Willis, M. L.
Wallace, C. S.
Wade, W. B.
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IVY LODGE, No. 406 — Paint Fork.
Regular Communications Saturday after each full moon.
OFFICERS.
W. B. Holcombe, M.
L- B. Metcalf, S. W.
M. E. Gillis, J. W.
N. N. Ingle, Treas.
N W. Anderson, Sec.
J. J. Gardner, S. D.
D. C. Marchbank, J. D.
S. W. Angel, S.
W. B. Ray, S.
J. Y. Gardner, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. M. Anderson, Elbert Metcalf.
Anderson, M. D.
Anderson, R. H.
Anderson, W. B.
Buckner, J. H.
Blankenship, James
Blankenship, George
Brown, J. S.
Crawford, H. G.
Horton, N. W.
Holcombe, I. D.
MEMBERS.
Hensley, E. W.
Ingle, S. I.
Ingle, R. K.
Metcalf, W. W.
McLean, I. N.
Moton, J. H.
McElroy, J. S.
Murray, Isaac
Metcalf, J N.
Metcalf, E- B.
Metcalf, M. E-
Roberson, A. N.
Radford, J. E.
Roberson, W. F.
Roberson, S. V.
Roberson, R. C.
Riddle, J. R.
Stevens, G. W.
Williams, Gay
Young, Joshua
LIBERTY GROVE LODGE, No. 407— North Wiekesboro.
Regular Communications Friday before each full moon and the second
Saturday thereafter.
OFFICERS.
W. M. Absher, M.
C. N. Hunt, S. W.
J. E. Deans, J. W.
E- S. Blair, Treas.
R. L- Phenner, Sec
Absher, L. W.
Adams, G. W.
Barber, W. W.
Burchett, J. W.
Coffey, J. R.
Clements, J. L.
Church, R. L.
Darlington, W. M.
MEMBERS.
Elmore, J. C.
Emerson, J. W.
Elledge, A. N.
Elledge, James
Elledge, W. W.
Forester, J. W.
Forester, J. T.
Leonard Vyne, S. D.
A. D. Hayes, J. D.
J. P. Elledge, S.
P. E. Dancy, S.
J. F. Wiggins, Tiler.
F'oster, B. F.
Hayes, C.
Myers, W. W.
Myers, J. Q.
Morlow, J. L.
Pearson, A. K.
Shatley, M.
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UNIVERSITY LODGE, No. 408— Chapel Hill.
Regular Communications Friday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
John C. Hocutt, M.
John W. Pendergrass, S. W.
Charles Baskerville, J. W.
Dr. Thos. J. Wilson, Treas.
A. J. McDade, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Jno.
Charles Baskerville.
Dr. R. H. Whitehead, S. D.
J. A. R. Davis, J. D.
J . F. Pickard, S.
R. S. McRae, S.
O. B. Tenney, Tiler.
C. Hocutt, Jno. W. Pendergrass,
Andrews, H. C.
Cates, W. M.
Lloyd, Albert
Lloyd, Henry
Lloyd, Lucco
Lloyd, Thos. F.
Lloyd, Wm. R.
MEMBERS.
Lindsay, Charles L.
McCauley, David
McCajiley, M. A.
McCauley, M. J. W.
Merritt, E. S.
Pickard, George C.
Pritchard, Walter H.
Pritchard, W. N.
Strowd, Rev. Thos. W.
Watson, Rev. N. M.
Winecoff, Rev. Thos. E.
Williams, Cad R.
BULA LODGE, No. 409 — Burlington.
Regular Communications second Monday in each month.
OFFICERS.
D. F. Morrow, M.
J. W. Cates, S. W.
C. A. Anderson, J. W.
J. M. Tisdale, Treas.
Ike Harris, Sec.
Dallas McGhee, S. D.
Claud Cates, J. D.
N. G. B. Stancill, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. M. Tisdale, J. A. Turrentine, Ike Harris.
Ashworth, Ishatn
Allen, T. E.
Burch, A. J.
Barrett, A. F.
Bradley, Augustus
Carroll, W. H.
Graber, C. L.
Guthrie, B. O.
Godfrey, W. M.
Holt, J. H.
Holt, J. C.
Holt, W. I.
Hopkins, J. H. L.
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Holt, S. M.
Ingle, J. W.
Jones, W. H.
Kivett, Nathan
Lynch, T. F.
Levin, Koen
Murphey, J. R.
May, H. R.
Mebane, J. H.
Mansfield, Sidney
Pryor, P. M.
Peele, C. C.
Rippy, J. W.
Rippy, W. W.
Ramsey, S. C.
Robinson, C. C.
Sutton, P. F.
Sutphin, R. L.
Turrentine, J. A.
Thurston, W. C.
White, J. R.
Wiley, P. A.
Winningham, J. H.
Worth, E. W.
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ROCKVILLE LODGE, No. 41 1— Stanhope.
Regular Communications first Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
V. A. J. Glover, M.
C. H. Eatmon, S. W.
J. W. Finch, J. W.
J. H. Strickland, Treas.
J. D. Finch, Sec.
H. L. Dilliard, S. D
I. F. Finch, J. D.
K. W. Ballentine, S.
J. W. Sanders, S.
Exum O’Neal, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Barney Pearson, D. H. Bunn, K. W. Bal-
lentine.
Deanes, B. B.
Dilliard, P. C.
Floyd, J. W.
Finch, C H.
Griffin, W. H.
MEMBERS.
Glover, R. L.
Morgan, C. D.
O’Neal, M. C.
Pearson, Amos
Roberson, W. R.
Strickland. J. L.
Strickland, C. M. J.
Strickland, H. W.
Whitley, H. R.
HENRY F GRAINGER LODGE, No. 412— Dabney.
Regular Communications Saturday before the second Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
James B. Glover, Sec.
W. H. Hester, S. D.
James A. Cottrell, J. D.
J. W. Kittrell, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. L. Burroughs.
C. F. Crews, M.
S. J. Currin, S. W.
C. G. Patterson, J. W.
B. I. Breedlove, Treas.
Barker, D. T.
Burroughs, J. E-
Barnes, L. M.
Capps, J. L.
Ellington, H. H.
Ellington, H. G.
Fleming, John R.
MEMBERS.
Hester, W. S.
Hester, C. R.
Hammie, L. F.
Harris, E. C.
Parham, C. W.
Parham, R. E-
Parham, W. A.
Stovall, T. W.
Tippett, C. H.
Wilson, John R.
Wilson, L. J.
Williams, T. H.
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LOUISBURG LODGE, No. 413— Louisburg.
Regular Communications first Tuesday in each month.
OFFICERS.
C. M. Cooke, M.
J. W. Hollingsworth, S. W.
Feril Parish, J. W.
Geo. H. Cooper, Treas.
Geo. S. Baker, Sec.
Joseph J. Barrow, S. D.
Paul Griffin, J. D.
J. A. Thomas, S.
J. R. Collie, S.
W. H. Beddingfield, Tiler
Orphan Asylum Committee — Geo. S. Baker, Geo. H. Cooper, J. W. Hol-
lingsworth.
Bennett, Samuel T.
Burnett, A. C.
Barrow, E- C.
Bickett, T. W.
Cheatham, C. B.
Clifton, M. S.
Cooke, F. K.
Davis, M. S.
MEMBERS.
Hicks, L. P.
Hughes, W. T.
Kearney, H. A.
Mann, W. H.
Mitchell, J. H.
Reavis, P. A.
Rodwell, W. B.
Spruill, F S.
Smithwick, Dr. D. T.
Strother, A. S.
Stallings, R. C.
Turner, J. A.
Williams, C. C.
Wheeless, F. W.
Williams, I. N.
Yarborough, W. H., Jr.
NEW HOPE LODGE, No. 415— Purlear.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
A. J. Eller, M.
A. C. McRary, S. W.
W. E. Fletcher, J. W.
W. H. Emiston, Treas.
D. V. Nichols, Sec.
F. G. Yates, S. D.
J. W. Lewis, J. D.
B. Huffman, S.
A. M. Foster, S.
Hiram Church, Tiler,
Orphan Asylum Committee — D. V. Nichols, Hiram Church, A. C. Mc-
Rary.
Bishop, W. A.
Church, H. H.
Church, L. L.
Hall, T. D.
Hall, A. P.
MEMBERS.
Jones, R. M.
Jones, J. H.
McGlamery, J. I.
McGlarnery, L. M.
McNeil, W. E.
Nichols, W. A.
Triplett, J. W.
Triplett, T. A.
Triplett, W. C.
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BELLVIEW LODGE, No. 416— Cobbs.
Regular Communications fourth Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. L. King, M.
R. M. Whitmore, S. W.
James Morris, J. W.
J. W. King, Treas.
A. M. Hatchett, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. L. King, R
MEMBERS.
Anderson, D. S. Lee, J. B. Smith, Catlett
Hood, Edla Nicholson, John
W. H. Hughes, S. D.
Wm. Whitmore, J. D.
G. T. Olvey, S.
W. L. Bruse, S.
John Elliott, Tiler.
. M. Whitmore, Jas. Morris.
MAXTON LODGE, No. 417— MaxTon.
Regular Communications first and third Fridays in each month.
OFFICERS.
B. F. McLean, M.
J. B. Weatherly, S. W.
J. D. Craven, J. W.
W. A. Lowe, Treas.
E. L- McComac, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. A.
O. C. Nicholson, S. D.
D. W. Townsend, J. D.
F. Henderson, S.
J. B. Sellers, S.
J. W. Robbins, Tiler.
Lowe, T. G. Evans, W. I. Thompson.
Baker, J. W.
Bradshaw, Rev. M.
Burns, Enoch
MEMBERS.
Carter, J. W.
Currie, W. J.
Curtis, Rev. F. O. S.
Evans, T. O.
Jones, Rev. W. M.
Jones, A. L.
POTECASI LODGE, No. 418— Potecasi.
Regular Communications Saturday before the fourth Sunday in each
month.
officers.
R. W. Joyner, M.
S. C. Draper, S. W.
W. L- Johnson, J. W.
C. R. Harrell, Treas.
E- B. Lassiter, Sec.
C. G. Brown, S. D.
H. C. Lassiter, J. D
J. P. Griffin, S.
J. M. Taylor, S.
P. B. Murphy, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — R. G. Outland, J. W. Britton, Z. Vaughan.
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Brown, W. H.
Brown, J. B.
Baugham, J. R.
Brewer, F. C.
Cooke, W. C.
Cooke, G. \V.
Collier, R. G.
Copeland, J. E.
Futrell, Matt
Hart, T. H.
MEMBERS.
Hoggard, H. E.
Hicks, P. T.
Ivey, B. F.
Johnson, U. S.
Johnson, J. B.
Lassiter, J. J.
Murphy, M. E.
Odom, J. M.
Parker, C. W.
Parker, C. C.
Peele, A. E.
Powell, R. L.
Powell, C. G.
Parker, S. N.
Snipes, J. L-
Vaughan, R. W.
Vaughan, C. G.
Vaughan, W. H.
Wheeler, J. L.
Vick, B. D.
GREENWOOD LODGE, No. 419— Godwin.
Regular Communications second Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
T. B. W. Jackson, M.
J. W. Waddell, S. W.
K. J. Rhodes, J. W.
C. C. McLellan, Treas,
D. G. McLellan, Sec.
J. L. Hawley, S. D.
W. A. Baggot, J. D.
S. T. Starling, S.
L. J. Tew, S.
I. W. Branch, Tiler
Orphan Asylum Committee — T. B. W. Jackson, J. W. Waddell, K. J.
Rhodes.
MEMBERS.
Hawley, Pulaski
McCorquodale, A. G.
Nailor, A. B.
Starling, J. V.
Turner, J. H.
Tew, B. D.
Tew, A. C.
Warren, H. M.
BOONVILLE LODGE, No. 421— Boonville.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before each full moon.
OFFICERS.
M. L. Woodhouse, M.
P. C. Woodhouse, S. W
C. M. Halcomb, J. W.
A. P. Woodruff, Treas.
M. V. Fleming, Sec.
E. L. Transon, S. D
J. F. Vestal, J. D.
A. S. Speer, S.
R. W. Wooten, S.
J. T. Dobbin, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — M. L- Woodhouse, P. C. Woodhouse, C. M.
Halcomb.
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Angell, J. J.
Castevens, C. F.
Castwright, I. D.
Coram, R. P.
Dobbins, J. M.
MEMBERS.
Hinshaw, J. H.
Hoge, G. F.
Ross, John W.
Swaim, W. F.
Swaini, W. M.
Stinson, Israel
Smith, T. M.
Vestal, L. D.
Wilmoth, S. H.
BALTIMORE LODGE, No. 424— Tracadia.
Regular Communications Saturday before the fourth Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
Wm. Spillman, M.
S. L. Russell, S. W.
C. Allgood, J. W.
W. R. Williams, Treas.
A. E. Cornelius, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — E- T. Davis, J. H.
MEMBERS.
Bruce, M. C.
Carter, I. T.
Carter, J. M.
Davis, E. T.
Davis, P. A.
Dickson, R. L.
Dinkens, Ace
Eddleman, Frank
Hauser, A. L-
Humphries, I. F.
Hutchins, E. H.
Jennings, W. C.
Logan, W. G.
North, T. E.
North, W. S., Jr.
Patterson, J. O.
Poindexter, W. W.
Renigar, W. H.
Renigar, G. H.
A. W. Shore, S. D.
Thos. Norman, J. D
T. A. Poindexter, S.
N. M. Dickson, S.
J. D. Phillips, Tiler.
Sailor, C. Allgood.
Sailor, J. H.
Shore, J. H.
Steelman, Geo.
Steelman, W. D.
Tharington, J. F.
Williams, J. W.
Williams, Thomas
Wooten, Jesse
Wooten, E. H.
EASTERN STAR LODGE, No. 425 — Green Mountain.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before the full moon in each
month and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
R. A. Peak, S. D.
J. E. Huskins, J. D.
J. Wesley Howell, S.
H. R. Peake, S.
W. M. English, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Jacob Bailey, John Peterson, W. L. Ben-
nett.
A. J. Bennett, M.
D. M. Horton, S. W.
J. H. McCoury, J. W.
M. C. Peterson, Treas.
Zeb. V. Bennett, Sec.
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Bailey, T. W.
Bailey, S. N.
Bradshaw, J. I.
Deyton, C. C.
Fox, Moses
Garland, I. L.
Griffith, R. H.
MEMBERS.
Honeycutt, M. P.
Huskins, J. S.
Honeycutt, E. M.
Louis, J. H.
McCoury, J. C.
McCoury, M. P.
McCoury, A. Z.
Miller, Dan
Peterson, Oliver
Styles, Wm.
Whitson, Wm. M.
Wilhite, H. M.
Young, D. F.
MONTGOMERY LODGE, No. 426— Ranger.
Regular Communications second Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
A. K. Dickey, M.
A. Rice, S. W.
A. L. Martin, J. W.
Thos. Payne, Treas.
A. H. Davidson, Sec.
MEMBERS.
W. J. Lorance, S. D.
J. J. Keasler, J. D.
E. Montgomery, S.
E. B. Akin, S.
M. D. Reynolds, Tiler.
Akin, R. F.
Hamby, Wm.
Martin, A. J.
Ball, S. S.
Hamby, J. M.
Mason, E. D.
Burger, G. F.
Hickey, S. N.
Nelson, P. E.
Clayton, E. M.
Hickey, G. L.
Pack, E.
Collins, W. W.
Hickey, J. G.
Reynolds, W. M.
Dickey, J. B.
Johnson, A. L-
Simonds, J. J.
Dickey, T. C.
Johnson, I. L.
Suit, J. H.
Davidson, S. W.
Lorance, D. J.
Sparks, W. G.
Deweese, Z. B.
Graham, J. E.
Lorance, Joseph
Sneed, H.
OCONEE LODGE, No. 427 — Bryson City.
Regular Communications first Monday in each month.
OFFICERS.
D. K. Collins, M.
J. H. Everett, S. W.
W. T. Conley, J. W.
J. M. Welch, Treas.
C. C. Martin, Sec.
A. M. Bennett, S. D.
J. H. Detman, J. D.
Charles E. Welch, S
M. W. Buckner, S.
J. A. Brown, Tiler.
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Allison, A. B.
Ammons, J. A.
Bryson, W. C.
Cathey, J. H.
Cooper, L. W.
Cooper, W. H., Sr.
Cunningham, J. T.
Cooper, W. H., Jr.
Cunningham, R. T.
Cooper, Charles C.
Cathey, R. H.
Davis, R. L.
Dehart, D.
Everett, E.
MEMBERS.
Elmore, J. S.
Enloe, A. T.
Farmer, S. R. M.
Fry, A. M.
Fisher, D. G.
Fisher, T. J.
Gibson, J. L-
Hayes, Wade
Hyatt, R. L.
Hyatt, I. J.
Koontz, E. W.
Eeatherwood, R. L.
McLean, P. P.
Moody, H. L.
Marr, T. F.
Marr, J. E.
McNeely, S. H.
Parrish, T. H.
Royall, B. B.
Robinson, J. T.
Sawyer, J. L.
Snow, J. R.
Sawyer, J. R.
Thomasson, R. M.
Welch, A. H.
Welch, J. E. T.
Wiles, R. G.
Welch, Z. V.
STOKESDALE LODGE, No. 428 — Stokesdaee.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before each full moon.
OFFICERS.
John R. Dwiggins, M.
Robert A. Williams, S. W.
John H. Cook, J. W.
Wm. F. Linville, Treas.
James M. Hilton, Sec.
Wm. A. Branson, S. D.
J. M. White, J. D.
James F. Johnson, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. F. Linville, J. M. Hilton, R. A. Wil-
liams.
Cook, J. S.
MEMBERS.
Hilton, J. L.
Simpson, P. H.
SEA SIDE LODGE, No. 429 — Swansboro.
Regular Communications fourth Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
Dr. W. J. Montford, M.
J. A. Pittman, S. W.
J. B. Olive, J. W.
W. W. Russell, Sr., Treas.
C. S. Pittman, Sec.
Calvin Buckmaster, S. D.
Geo. Bell, J. D.
D. J. Moore, S.
D. G. Ward, S.
Thos. Merritt, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — D. J. Moore, S. A. Starling, J. M. Jones.
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Bloodgood, M. E.
Bloodgood, C. M.
Bell, E. H.
Dinkins, B. F.
Frazell, C. B.
Fonville, L. O., Jr.
MEMBERS.
Howard, J. B.
Howard, C. C
Hurst, W. H.
Moore, G. E.
Morton, H. E.
Paul, C. B.
Russell, W. W., Jr.
Riggs, J. R.
Sanders, J. W
Sanders, D. J.
Sewell, E- A.
Walker, D. D.
ROCK YFORD LODGE, No. 430— Lapp’s Mill.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
D. C. Smith, M.
B. H. Thompson, S. W.
F. T. Wolfe, J. W.
John Wilmoth, Treas.
William H. Wolfe, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — F.
C. C. Williams, S. D.
B. H. Douglas, J. D.
F. T. Snow, S.
J. H. T. Calloway, S.
F. B. Douglas, Tiler.
. Wolfe, Henry Wolfe, F. T. Snow.
MEMBERS.
Bryan, J. Q. A.
Bryan, A. C.
Combs, N. P.
Douglas, W. C.
Eldridge, F. S.
Ellis, P. H.
Gentry, William
Gentry, -Joseph
Haymore, J. F.
Hodges, I. W.
Hodges, R. L.
Kapp, A. H.
Lundy, Williams
Norman, F. W.
Steel, J. C.
Shelton, W. F.
Thompson, J. A.
Thompson, T. J.
Thompson, J. C.
Tucker, A. A.
Tucker, G. G.
Williams, A. J.
White, T. J.
Wolfe, E. K.
Wilmoth, Robert
RELIEF LODGE, No. 431— Benson.
Regular Communications first Friday in each month.
E. L. Hall, M.
A. Parrish, S. W.
J. W. Whittenton, J. W.
J. D. Parrish, Treas.
W. H. Royal, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — A
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G. W. Cavanaugh, S. D.
W. D. Boon, J. D.
J. W. Holmes, S.
J. D. Bain, S.
L- N. Creech, Tiler.
D. Bain, J. P. Adams.
OFFICERS.
\. Parrish, J.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Boon, James H.
Boykin, E. J. D.
Barnes, R. A. G.
Boon, W. J.
Dickson, R. S.
Haywood, Dixon, Jr.
MEMBERS,
Daniel, E. Edge
Gibbs, N. H.
Hudson, Benj.
Hall, F. R.
Hall, W. G.
Mangurn, L. W
Medlin, D. D.
Stancil, J. C.
Smith, R. W.
Stewart, C. S.
KING’S CREEK LODGE, No. 432 — King’s Creek.
Regular Communications second and fourth Saturdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. T. Evans, M.
Eugene Transon, S. W.
Alex. Pugh, J. W.
W. J. Weaver, Treas.
F. J. Pugh, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — G. A.
L. A. Hampton, S. D.
J. A. Blackburn, J. D.
T. J. Mitchell, S.
F. E. Baldwin, S.
A. E. Cole, Tiler.
Hampton, F. J. Pugh.
Andrews, J. C.
Black, F. R.
Black, Lee
Carter, C. E.
Debord, J. F.
Evans, J. A.
Edwards, W. S.
MEMBERS.
Edwards, A. J.
Finney, R. K.
Gilliam, McF.
Harp, W. I.
Hampton, G. A.
Kennedy, C. M.
Kennedy, J. L.
Landreth, T. W.
Parsons, D. F.
Parsons, J. M.
Shepherd, John C.
Sturgill, J. D.
Williams, John
VANCEBORO LODGE, No. 433— Vanceboro.
Regular Communications second Wednesday in each month.
W. T. Williams, M.
OFFICERS.
Franklin Lilly, S. D
J. N. Stubbs, S. W.
Henry Buck, J. D.
J. A. Purser, J. W.
J. J. Willis, S.
E. A. Gaskins, Treas.
C. H. Daugherty, S.
A. M. Williams, Sec.
E. A. Askins, Tiler.
MEMBERS.
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Adams, E. F.
Cherry, R. J.
Gattin, A. J.
Buck, Wilford
Ewell, Ledren
Ipock, David
Bright, Geo. F.
Ewell, S. E.
Ipock, N. B.
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Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Noah
Lewis, William
Lane, S. J.
Lewis, Geo. E.
Lewis, John A.
Morris, W. B.
Nelson, R. B.
Nobles, O C.
Purser, A. A.
Potts, F. L.
Roach, C. M.
Seabolt, N. L.
Stubbs, C. F.
Smith, B. J.
Whitford, Stephen
Whitford, N. H.
Warren, J. R M.
WEST BEND LODGE, No. 434 — Panther Creek.
Regular Communications second Saturday in each month.
J. A. Turner, M.
N. R. Brown, S. W
J. N. Black, J. W.
P. J. Brown, Treas.
J. R. Hauser, Sec.
OFFICERS.
G. A. Hauser, S. D.
T. W. Poindexter, J. D.
W. G. Hauser, S.
A. W. Jones. S.
G. P. Taylor, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. A. Turner, N. R. Brown, J. N. Black.
MEMBERS.
Wright, E. H.
BLUE RIDGE LODGE, No. 435 — Highlands.
Regular Communications Friday at or next preceding each full moon
and June 24th and December 27th.
J. L- Owen, M.
W. W. Moss, S. W.
B. M. Peek, J. W.
J. Pierson, Treas.
B. Norton, Sec.
OFFICERS.
J . J . Moss, S. D.
G. W. Stewinter, J. D.
W. R. Stewart, S.
Robert Potts, S.
M. M. Pierson, Tiler.
MEMBERS.
Adams, McD.
Baty, J. S.
Bumgarner, J. N.
Burrell, A. M.
Clark, Sumner
Esty, A. S.
Graves, G. W.
Harbison, T. G.
Henson, J. M.
Heener, J. M.
McCall, T. T.
McCoy, D. J.
Norton, David
Norton, Griffin
Norton, John
Owens, W. E-
Peek, I. T.
Peek, Z. J.
Phillips, R. J.
Pierson, Rodrick
Rochester, J. H.
Vinson, G. H.
Vinson, H. B.
Vinson, J. D.
Vinson, J. R.
Vinson, T. J.
Walden, J. F.
Walden, T. D.
White, G. P.
Wilson, A. M.
Wilson, J. W.
Wilson, Andrew M.
Zachary, Grant
Zachary, Charles
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STAR LODGE, No. 437— Star.
Regular Communications Saturday before the fourth Sunday in each
month and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
W. L. Freeman, M. Henry Melton, ,S.
John L. Stuart, Sec. W. H. Carpenter, S.
J. E. Kanoy, S. D. E. N. Freeman, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — John L. Stuart, Manly Luck, D. M. Hun-
sucker.
Brewer, William L.
Boyd, J. T.
Comer, J. R.
Cole, J. R.
Fox, J M.
Harper, W. T.
MEMBERS.
I
Hunsucker, D. M
Johnson, H. L.
Luck, Manly
Lewis, D. C.
McPherson, J. A.
Melton, Neill
Melton, Neill L.
Owen, W. B.
Ray, Malconl
Stuart, C. E.
MARBLE SPRING LODGE, No. 439— Marbee.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before each full moon.
OFFICERS.
J. F. Palmer, M.
W. H. Raxster, S. W.
J. P. Trull, J. W.
M S. Pruett, Treas.
J. A. Kimsey, Sec.
B. B. Palmer, S. D.
J. H. Bryson, J. D.
J. A. Powell, S.
C. C. Bruce, S.
J. L. Bettis, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — D. S. Pruett, W. H. Abernathy, S. T.
Conley.
MEMBERS.
Abernathy, J. B.
Barton, Z. Z.
Barton, A. C.
Barker, M. H.
Bradley, W. D.
Keener, J. S.
Ladd, E. L.
Lawing, J. W.
Lovingood, James
Moody, P. B.
McAlreath, —
Mulkey, W. B.
Norton, J. E-
Palmer, J. W.
Palmer, J. H.
Palmer, W. M.
Rickett, B. A.
Russell, D. S.
Robinson, J. L.
Raxster, Wesley
Stiler, J. W.
Sparks, J. N.
Sandlin, G. L.
Sandlin, W. C.
Treadaway, E- R.
Thomasson, John A.
Thomasson, James A
Thomasson, T. J.
Watson, C. M.
Whitaker, H. C.
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CLINGMAN LODGE, No. 440— Clingman.
Regular Communications Saturday after the full moon.
OFFICERS.
G. W. Sale, M.
W. A. Holloman, S. W.
A. V. Foot, J. W.
L. J. Salmons, Treas.
J. C. Green, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. P.
T. M. Armstrong, S. D.
F. M. Swain, J. D.
R. S. Gray, S.
Jacob Smith, S.
T. F. Calloway, Tiler.
7ooton, J. T. Martin.
Bell, W. F.
Gray, S.
Hemricks, S. B.
Harris, S. E.
Harris, L. A.
Huneycutt, D. M.
MEMBERS.
Johnson, J. M.
Mathis, A.
Mathis, W. A.
Mathis, E.
Marshall, I. T.
Marshall, G. W.
Mathis, J. A.
Pinix, M.
Sparks, W. R.
Thomerson, W. A.
Welborne, F. M.
Welborne, T. V.
PLEASANT MOUNT LODGE, No. 441— Ink.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before the full moon in each
month and June 24th and December 27th.
J. I. Handy, M.
M. M. Handy, J. W.
A. M Alexander, Treas.
W. L. Brewer, Sec.
W. E- Handy, S. D.
OFFICERS.
W. C. Walker, J. D.
T. C. Elledge, S.
L. O. Elledge, S.
T. B. Handy, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. L. Brewer, W. F. Porter, L. W. Sebas-
tin.
MEMBERS.
Brewer, Felix Johnson, S. F. Sebastin, L. W.
Blevins, C. ' Porter, W. F.
WAXHAW LODGE, No. 442— Waxhaw.
Regular Communications first Tuesday and third Saturday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
S. J. McGuirt, M.
W. S. King, S. W.
E. J. Sims, J. W.
H. W. Brown, Treas.
T. L. Davis, Sec.
W. J. McGuirt, S. D.
L. W. Haegler, J. D.
J. J. King, S.
T. L. Davis, S.
L. W. Haegler, Tiler.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. J. King, T. L. Davis, J. T. Black.
Blythe, J. B.
Davis, D. S.
Heath, J. D.
Hagler, A. A
MEMBERS.
Houston, H. C.
Nisbet, W. O.
Richardson, G. R.
Starnes, J. H.
Stephenson, S. B.
Stephenson, J. E.
Wilson, James
Williams, H. T.
ROPER LODGE, No. 443— Roper.
Regular Communications first and third Tuesdays after first Sunday in
each month.
OFFICERS.
J. R. Kessinger, M.
E- L. Herrington, S. W.
W. F. Clark, J. W.
J. H. Clarke, Treas.
F. D. Wilson, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — L. G. Roper.
Bateman, W. M.
Bateman, D. N.
Bell, J. D.
Blount, T. W.
Clayton, Job
Chesson, E. S.
Dixon, G. W.
Davenport, W. S.
Ebron, Rev. Luther
Forbes, W. A.
MEMBERS.
Hallsey, B. F.
Johnston, S. B.
Knowles, W. P.
Lewis, E. R.
Lewis, J. T.
Merritt, D. W.
Owens, A. W.
Parsons, P. S.
Parker, Rev. A. J.
Reichle, C. F.
J. W. Speight, S. D
L. P. Elliott, J. D.
LI. H. Davis, S.
J. L. Singleton, S.
A. C. Wentz, Tiler.
Snell, C. W.
Snell, A. D.
Sitterson, J. T.
Stafford, C. C.
Thompson, W. C.
Towe, Rev. William
Vandervort, H. E.
Walker, H. D.
Ward, H. S.
MARIETTA LODGE, No. 444 — Ramseur.
Regular Communications first Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. M. Whitehead, M.
J. C. Reece, S. W.
J. C. Whitehead, J. W.
I. F. Craven, Treas.
D. M. Weatherly, Sec.
H. C. Free, S. D.
T. E. West, J. D.
J. E. Brady, S.
A. G. Burgess, S.
J. M. Kivett, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — I. F. Craven, J. O. Forrester. D. M
Weatherly.
Allen, J. J.
Allred, C. T.
Boyette, Dr. J. M.
Burgess, D. B.
Burgess, D. M.
Burgess, John H.
Brady, R. L.
Capel, A. W. E.
Cole, J. E.
Carter, H. B.
Copeland, Harry
Elliott, W. M.
Free, M. C.
Forrester, J. O.
MEMBERS.
Grady, E. M.
Graves, R. N.
Gunter, J. L.
Gichiner, Max
Hurley, W. T.
Hurley, A. A.
Hodgin, E- M.
Jennings, T. M.
Leonard, E. B.
Leonard, O. T.
Luthur, Willis
Marsh, J. C.
Parks, T. B.
Reece, J. W.
Spinks, E. C.
Smitherman, H. R.
Steele, J. W.
Steele, J. R.
Staley, A. M.
Smith, C. P.
Steed, E. J.
Turner, J. T.
Turner, W. A.
Whitehead, M. N.
Watkins, W. H., Sr.
Ward, W. A.
BILTMORE LODGE, No. 446— Biltmore.
Regular Communications first and third Tuesdays in each month.
officers.
T. J. Reed, M. T. F. Creasman, S. D.
D. G. Matheson, S. W. J. T. Roberts, J. D.
J. A. Halyburton, J. W. W. A. Pursley, S.
J. C. Lipe, Treas. W. L. Freeman, S.
R. E. Shuford, Sec. A. J. Garren, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. C. Lipe, W. L. Freeman, J. A. Halybur-
ton.
MEMBERS.
Ashworth, Jason
Brookshire, J. A.
Brookshire, J. M.
Beadle, C. D.
Breece, W. E-, Jr.
Ballew, W. P.
Creasman, T. B.
Carter, B. S.
Gall, James, Jr.
Goodlake, J. W.
Gibson, E- J.
Goldsmith, M. E.
Hadlow, W. T.
Miller, Geo. F.
Merrill, S. J.
Merrill, B. F.
Murray, E.
McCracken, C. M.
Powers, B. A.
Reed, J. H.
Reed, M. L.
Reece, Jas.
Reed, G. W.
Roberts, J. T., Jr.
Swope, Rev. R. R-.
Slagle, Jas. S.
Shuford, Jas. E.
Shuford, T. W.
Stevens, C. M.
Prantham, T. L
Van Bergen, Chas.
Whitaker, C. R.
Williams, C. A.
Williams, J. S.
Whitaker, A. S.
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ENFIELD LODGE, No. 447— Enfieed.
Regular Communications second Monday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. C. Braswell, S. D.
W. J. Ward, J. D.
E. N. Ricks, S.
J. C. Randolph, S.
M. J. Carr, Tiler.
J. J. Whitaker, J. W. Harden, E. N. Ricks.
MEMBERS
Applewhite, W. J.
Dickens, J. R.
Parker, W. F.
Andrews, R. M.
Gregory, F. W.
Pearson, Sam.
Atkerson, H. C.
Harden, J. W.
Pippin, F. L.
Barnhill, M V.
Holmes, W. J.
Pope, J. H.
Beasley, S. M.
Harrison, H. S.
Roper, J. R.
Bell, David
Hunter, W. F.
Ricks, E. N.
Benton, John
Lassiter, D. C.
Rose, E. E.
Boseman, W. T.
Moore, D. P.
Taylor, Thos. H
Boseman, Jno. T.
Merritt, H. L.
Taylor, F. H
Beavans, W. E-
Mann, O. D.
Taylor, A. L.
Clark, W. H.
Mathews, G. E.
Wood, I. T.
Clark, D. C.
McDonald, W. H.
Williams, C. A.
Carr, J. B.
McGwigan, C. E.
Whitaker, J. S.
Cherry, J. K.
Pittman, B. C.
West, W. H.
Cole, J. W.
Dickens, F. M.
Pittman, M. L.
Wynn, T. A.
A. S. Harrison, M.
J. J. Whitaker, S. W.
Jno. A. Collins, J. W.
Geo. B. Curtis, Treas.
John Beavans, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee —
INGOLD LODGE, No. 448— Ingoed.
Regular Communications last Thursday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. D. Johnson, M.
T. E- Owen, S. W.
John Stallings, J. W.
A. N. Johnson, Treas.
Orphan Asylum Committee — A. F.
Stallings.
A. F. Robinson, Sec.
W. H. Johnson, S. D.
L. H. Peterson, J. D.
A. M. Blackburn, Tiler.
Roberson, A. M. Blackburn, John
MEMBERS.
Gaylor, Jas.
Mallard, A. J.
Sloan, Thos.
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LONE OAK LODGE, No. 449 — Robbinsville.
Regular Communications first Monday in each month.
OFFICERS.
S. P. Harwood, M.
R. B. Slaughter, S. W.
N. C. Christopher, J. W.
P. L- Rice, Treas.
Will W. Wiggins, Sec.
H. P. Hyde, S. D.
R. L. Lisenbee, J. D.
J. A. Ammons, S.
R. V. McElroy, S.
W. W. Robinson, Tiler
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. W. Flemming, R. V. McElroy.
Ammons, Samuel
Adams, John P.
Allan, W. L.
Ashe, Jeff
Allan, W. E.
Ammons, J. A.
Baker, James
Barnes, W. M.
Blanton, D. K.
Crisp, Joel L.
Crisp, J. Martin
Crisp, J. W.
Crisp, W. W.
Crisp, N. S.
Cook, R. J.
Coburn, J. E.
Calhoun, T. J.
Calvard, R. S.
Calvard, George
Carver, Alfred
Denton, Charles
Davis, Jacob
MEMBERS.
Davis, Theodore
Davis, George
Davis, R. L.
Edwards, A. M.
Flemming, W. W.
Grant, B. P.
Grant, W. H.
Garland, Avery
Golden, John
Harwood, P. P.
Holder, Allan
Jenkins, P. L.
Jenkins, J. D.
John, Ed.
Johnson, J. E.
Jordon, S.
Keyser, W. W.
Lisenbee, R. L.
Mehaffev, D. F.
Miller, G. O.
Maxwell, M. T.
Mauney, W. F.
McFalls, Samuel
McElroy, R. V.
Orr, R. J.
Phillips, P. L.
Queen, William
Rice, P. L.
Rice, James E.
Rice, William
Rice, M. L.
Rogers, T. L.
Rogers, L- H.
Robinson, W, W.
Slaughter, N. M. E.
Slaughter, R. B.
Straw, C. V.
West, Thomas
West, W. B.
Welch, D. R.
Walker, A. H.
Zachery, D. M.
POLENTA LODGE, No. 450— Polenta.
Regular Communications Saturday before the second Sunday in each
month.
J. C. Hardee, M.
W. B. Hardee, S. W.
L. B. Langdon, J. W.
Thad Stevens, Treas.
Claude Stephenson, Sec.
OFFICERS.
J. W. Smith, S. D.
W. T. Johnson, S.
J. L. Talton, S.
Jesse Wood, Tiler.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Orphan Asylum Committee — Claude Stephenson, John F. Hardee,
Thad Stevens.
MEMBERS.
Cordle, C. R.
Hales, John W.
Parrish, W. G
Hardee, John F.
Long, W. R.
Young, B. W.
ASHLER LODGE, No. 451 — Stony Fork.
Regular Communications Saturday before the full moon in each month
and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
L. M. Hodges, M.
G L. Payne, S. W.
Win. M. Lee, J. W.
J. L. Welborn, Treas.
J. B. Hopbines, Sec.
G. W. Carroll, S. D.
I. S. Watson, J. D.
W. B. Miller, S.
S. T. Carroll, S.
W. E. Greene, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — T. C. Land, Wm. M. Lee, I. S. Watson.
MEMBERS.
Blackburn, L. D.
Blackburn, J. F.
Blackburn, E. L.
Barnette, W. O.
Church, John W.
Church, W. N.
Church, T. A.
Critcher, C. C.
Dennie, J. A.
Greene, Lot W.
Gross, I. W.
Hendrix, W. F.
Hendrix, W. L.
Harden, Frank
Hodgson, W. J.
Lee, D. W.
Land, T. D.
Land, W. T.
Land, —
Mikeal, W. B.
Mikeal, Jacob
Owens, W. B.
Payne, A. J.
Phillips, E. E.
Triplett, L. W.
Tomlinson, J. E.
Welborn, A. J.
Waters, L. M.
Walker, R. W.
Walker, Charles
Wagner, McD.
Widby, E. J.
GRIFTON LODGE, No. 452— Grifton.
Regular Communications third Wednesday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. L- Keen, Jr., M.
C. J. Tucker, S. W.
W. J. Kittrell, J. W.
W. W. Dawson, Treas.
J. R. Harvey, Sec.
A. G. Coward, S. D.
Jacob McCotter, J. D
W. H. McCotter, S.
G. T. Gardner, S.
Chas. Grubbs, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — A. G. Coward, J. R. Harvey, W. W. Daw-
son.
Brooks, E. J.
Bland, T.
Brooks, J. Z.
Blow, R. L.
MEMBERS.
Griffin, J. C.
Lang, E.
McLorhorn, Thos.
Pittman, R. E.
Rhodes, J. J.
Tucker, J. L.
CLYDE LODGE, No. 453— Clyde.
Regular Communications Tuesday on or before each full moon.
OFFICERS.
Committee — J. J. Ensley,
H. A. Smith, W. J. Jenkins.
W. A. Ghral, S. D.
M. L. Hall, J. D.
J. M. Osborne, S.
R. T. Harris, S.
J. A. Medford, Tiler.
S. B. Medford, M.
J. M. Rogers, S. W.
J. K. Hall, J. W.
J. W. Morgan, Treas.
J. S. Patton, Sec.
Orphan Asylum
Ballew, W. A.
Bradshaw, J. B.
Compton, M. C.
Caldwell, D. M.
Caldwell, C. W.
Clark, E. C.
Davis, J. S.
Ghral, J. L.
Hill, B. F.
Haynes, W. J.
Haynes, J. M.
Haynes, Jasper
Haynes, P. B.
Harris, R. T.
Holland, J. M.
MEMBERS.
Jones, B. B.
Jones, J. W.
Johnson, T. B.
Kirkpatrick, W. L.
Killian, J. L.
Liner, J. R.
Matnej’, W. C.
Matney, J. F.
Medford, J. B.
Medford, W. T.
Morgan, J. L.
Moore, I. F.
McBrary, W. F.
McBracken, P. G.
Noland, M. M.
Noland, J. W.
Penland, R. L.
Queen, J. M.
Robinson, M. N.
Rliodormer, W. T.
Shook, J. Wiley
Shook, Jno. W.
Shook, H. C.
Sellers, J. R.
Smathers, C. L.
Sentelle, H. N.
Silvers, W. H.
Terrell, J. L.
Wells, H. N.
ELKIN LODGE, No. 454— Elkin.
Regular Communications Tuesday night on or before each full moon
and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
W. E. Paul, M.
J. W. Bowles, S. W.
B. F. Rollins, J. W.
J. F. Walsh, Treas.
J. F. Walsh, Sec.
R. P. Crater, S. D.
D. W. Bailey, J. D.
H. D. Woodruff, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — -J S. Bell, H. F. Boney, R. P. Crater.
Bure ham, John F.
Bray, R. O.
Bryant, J. R.
Ball, J. H.
Chatham, H. G.
Fowler, N. W.
MEMBERS.
Hendren, J. F.
Lillard, Thomas J.
Martin, G. F.
Rutledge, W. T.
Roth, G. T.
Ring, Dr. J. W.
Roberts, C. S.
Reves, G. B.
Woodruff, Dan
Willard, J. W.
Weesner, A. A.
PINEV1LLE LODGE, No. 455— Pinevilee.
Regular Communications on or before the full moon in each month.
OFFICERS.
C. W. Eason, S. D.
M. G. Hair, J. D.
S. L. Manson, S.
W. M. Ross, S.
W. J. Houglin, Tiler.
W. K. Reid, J. B. Boyd.
MEMBERS.
Culp, M. E. Reid, J. W.
N. G. Moore, M.
S. G. Howard, S. W.
W. T. Dominey, J. W.
J. D. Skidmore, Treas.
W. M. Morrow, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee —
RUSK LODGE, No. 456— Rusk.
Regular Communications Saturday before each full moon.
OFFICERS.
P. C. Layne, M.
J. H. Norton, S. W.
J. S. Layne, J. W.
W. V. Burch, Treas.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W.
Dockery.
A. L. Norman, Sec.
J. W. Starling, S. D.
N. E. Albertz, J. D.
J. C. Cecil, Tiler.
B. Stanley, A. L. Norman, W. L.
MEMBERS.
Albertz, W. L.
Cane, T. H.
Dockery, W. L.
Key, W. H.
Marsh, .William
Norman, W. H.
Poindexter, J. G.
Stanley, W. B.
Stanley, Solomon
Snow, B. W.
Sprinkle, J. A.
Sprinkle, F. C.
Wallace, J. J.
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GRAPEVINE LODGE, No. 457 — Grapevine.
Regular Communications first Saturday after the new moon in ecah
month and June 24th and December 4th.
OFFICERS.
J. F. Tilson, M.
C. J - Bradley, S. W.
W. W. Corn, J. W.
M. F. Whitt, Treas.
J. A. Sams, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. F. Tilson, C. J.
S. S. Coats, S. D
Jas. Rice, J. D.
J. D. Bradley, S.
J. B. Gasnell, S.
J. Burrl, Tiler.
Bradley, W. W. Corn.
Bruce, M.
MEMBERS..
Gosnell, W. S.
Sprinkle, A. J.
Bailey, J. N.
Howell, J. M.
Silver, T. A.
Bailey, L. J.
Lewis, Jos. L.
Silver, A. B.
Buckner, S. R.
McHone, C. A.
Sams, A. H.
Cargile, C. W.
Metcalf, John, Sr.
Shelton, M. G.
Coats, W. I,.
Metcalf, L.
Shelton, N. D.
Coats, J. Z.
Metcalf, John, Jr.
Sams, G. W.
Coal, G. W.
Metcalf, W. R.
Tilson, J. C.
Coats, J. W.
Norton, Wm.
Wilson, G. H.
Corn, J. L.
Peek, L. W.
Wilson, J. K.
Dodd, Wm.
Sams, R. E.
West, J. M.
Gosnell, M. W.
Smith, H. D.
West, N. L.
Gosnell, G. W.
Sams, R. B.
Wild, H. G.
Gosnell, J. B.
Stines, J. H.
Wild, Jas.
DILLSBORO LODGE, No. 459 — Dillsboro.
Regular Communications first and third Thursdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. J. Mason, M.
S. T. Early, S. W.
R. F. Jarrett, J. W.
W. A. Enloe, Treas.
T. McBee Mason, Sec.
C. T. Sisk, S. D.
D. H. Ashe, J. D.
T. H. Hastings, S.
C. A. Snyder, S.
N. L. Sutton, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. W. Buchanan, P. W. Kincaid, W. J.
Kincaid.
MEMBERS-
Berry, C. S.
Bird, C. A.
Cooper, S. W.
Candler, J. M.
Dewitt, W. L.
Haney, T. H.
Johnson, H. B.
Johnson, G. H.
Knight, G. E.
McDade, E- B.
Phillips, S. H
Parks, C. M.
Sitton, J. D.
Sims, A. H.
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HENRIETTA LODGE, No. 460— Henrietta.
Regular Communications Saturday before each fourth Sunday.
OFFICERS.
J. L- Hamrick, M.
J. F. Whistnant, S. W.
M. H. Hawkins, J. W.
C. W. Melton, Treas.
D. B. Johnson, Sec.
A. D. Lancaster, S. D.
S. M. Moreland, J. D.
G. W. Maurice, S.
B. R. Hicks, S.
T. P. Crouch, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. S. Bridges, S. M. Moreland, D. B. John-
son.
MEMBERS.
Bridges, J. S.
Byers, J. E.
Biggerstaff, Jas.
Carson, J. H.
Crouch, T. P.
Davis, J. P.
Edgens, E. M.
Fowler, M. H.
Goode, J. M.
Gaither, Allen
Hamrick, J. L.
Hawkins, M. H
Harrison, Jas.
Hicks, B. R.
Henson, B. H.
Hicks, Ben. D.
James, R. G.
James, Robert
James, Felix
Johnson, D. B.
Jolley, D. M.
Lancaster, A. D.
Lancaster, W. G.
Lovelace, Dr. T. B.
McSwain, B, E-
Melton, C. W.
Moreland, S. M.
Maurice, G. W.
Phillips, W. M.
Quenn, R. M.
Rollins, W. P.
Scruggs, R. P.
Terrell, W. H.
Wall, H. G.
Wall, J. S.
Whistnant, Dr. J. F.
MATTHEWS LODGE, No. 461— Matthews.
Regular Communications second and fourth Thursdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
A. J. Williams, M.
J. E. Broom, S. W.
A. C. Russel, J. W.
M. T. Stallins, Treas.
J. W. Abernethy, Sec.
T. J. Orr, S. D.
J. B. Coffey, J. D.
Harry Stewart, S.
J. F. Kesiah, S.
S. B. Smith, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — A. C. Russel, T. N. Read, M. T. Stallins.
Aubery, J. W.
Ballentine, W. T.
Black, J. E.
Davis, G. W.
Ervin, T. G.
Faulkner, E. G.
Flow, J. W.
MEMBERS.
Gurley, M. D.
Harkey, J. M.
Hartis, D. W.
Hooks, S. J.
Johnson, W. D.
Morrison, R. C.
McGinnis, W. F.
Naylor, H. A.
Porter, J. M.
Rea, J. T., Jr.
Read, T. N.
Robinson, D. C.
Stancil, A. G.
Williamson, M. B.
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SOUTH FORK LODGE, No. 462 — McAdensvillE.
Regular Communications second and fourth Thursdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
G. L- Wright, M.
H. B. Reid, S. W.
Geo. Alexander, J. W.
I. F. Mabry, Treas.
F. J. McCauley, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — F. J. McCauley.
members.
L. A. Renyolds,
Lee McAteer, J.
Dan Lorance, S.
W. J. Wilson, S
G. B. Martin, Ti
Arnette, J. A.
Grisdale, J. M.
Pursley, J. J.
Adcock, Archy
Gemayle, A. J.
Price, D. A.
Austin, J. P.
Grider, P. P.
Robinson, S. M.
Blair, J. R.
Hislop, E- M.
Raban, J. W.
Bryson, R. P.
Hand, P. W.
Shields, R. B.
Boseman, J. D.
Harwell, M. A.
Smith, A. J.
Brinkley, W. T.
Hooper, E. N.
Smith, A. L.
Culp, W. C.
Henderson, W. M.
Shuford, T. E.
Cobb, A. B.
Hester, J. B.
Shuford, J. R.
Earp, W. G.
Lybraud, W. M.
Walker, J. N.
Fox, J. A.
Moore, O. F.
Walker, J. W.
Groves, J. W.
Moore, S. J.
Wilson, W. M.
Glenn, L. N.
McAteer, W. P.
Watts, J. E.
Groves, R. J.
McAteer, J. S.
Webb, G. L.
CURRITUCK LODGE, No. 463— Coinjock.
Regular Communications third Wednesday in each month.
officers.
T. J. Taylor, M.
Walter Gray, S. W.
H. M. Gallop, J. W.
B. F. Barco, Treas.
G. W. Williams, Sec
Tilman Lewark, S. D
W. A. Litchfield, J. D
Wesley Austin, S.
John M. Beasley, S.
S. S. Ballance, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — T. J. Taylor, Walter Gray, H. M. Gallop.
Beasley, S. M.
Brutnsey, William
Bonney, Ferdinand
Beasley, J. W.
MEMBERS.
Curies, W. T., Jr.
Evans, T. J.
Evans, J. J.
Forbes, W. A.
Gallop, P. G.
Guard, J. T.
Gregory, N. W.
Griggs, Dr. W. T.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Hampton, N. N.
Jones, J. B.
Lindsay, D. W.
Lewark, J. T.
Lewark, St. Clair
Lewark, Humphries
Miller, R. L.
O’Neal, Edgar
Payne, S. J.
Sanderlin, S. B.
Taylor, B. F.
Taylor, Z. B.
Turner, J. L.
Talbott, J. F.
Woodhouse, D. W.
Ward, J. E.
Ward, J. W.
BOILING SPRINGS LODGE, No. 464— Boieing Springs.
Regular Communications Saturday before the third Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
D. J. Hamrick, M.
K. D. N. Jolley, S. W.
W. R. Smith, J. W.
A. R. Hamrick, Treas.
C. M. Hamrick, Sec.
G. W. C. Byars, S. D.
M. M. Moore, J. D.
W. T. Grigg, S.
J. W. Wood, S.
J. L. Hamrick, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — D. J. Hamrick, R. H. Green, Jr., A. R.
Hamrick.
Bridges, J. O.
Bridges, T. A.
Furgurson, M. A.
Green, A. J.
Green. R. H.
Glascoe, E. S.
Grigg, W. T.
Green, T. M.
Green, Seton
MEMBERS.
Jolley, J. T.
Lovelace, G. W.
Lovelace, M. J.
Lee, W. O.
Lee, A. B.
Ledfetter, C. M.
McSwain, G. G.
McSwain, A. W.
McSwain, J. M.
McCran, C. K.
Pruett, J. D.
Quinn, J. H.
Ramsey, J. T.
Smith, L. L.
White, R. M.
Weaver, J. A. •
Wood, J. W.
Weathers, W. M.
GULF LODGE, No. 465— Guef.
Regular Communications Saturday before the first and third Sundays
in each month.
OFFICERS.
R. W. Palmer, M.
T. W. Moses, S. W.
M. J. Jordan, J. W.
G. D. Frasier, Treas.
Frank D. Jones, Sec,
N. P. Bullard, S. D.
D. L. Bryan, J. D.
R. M. Roberson, S.
O. S. Johnson, S.
L. M. Andrews, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. F. Thom, D. L- Bryant, O. S. Johnson.
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Britten, Isaac
Craven, James M.
Dudley, T. E.
MEMBERS.
Hill, W. H.
Kissell, James
Moore, S. P.
Pendleton, C. F.
Tally, W. J.
KING HIRAM LODGE, No. 466— Edonia.
Regular Communications Saturday before the first Sunday in each
month.
W. S. Bramble, M.
J. H. Canady, S. W.
T. B. McNeill, J. W.
A. L- McLean, Treas.
H. B. Willis, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee —
Memory
Byrd, Rev. R. L.
Bethune, D. G.
Cashwell, Rev. R. N.
Cash well, J. A.
Cashwell, Noah
Cogdell, J. W.
Cole, S. D.
OFFICERS.
D. A. McNeill,
MEMBERS.
Campbell, J. A.
Gainey, W. A.
Gainey, A.
Gainey, J. A.
Henderson, T. M.
Hunnicutt, J. A.
Johnson, Rev. W. R.
D. A. McNeill, S. D.
S. C. Kriner, J. D.
H. Jones, S.
R. L. Braxton, S.
C. F. Canady, Tiler.
R. L. Braxton, W. G.
Memory, J. L-
Maxwell, T. W.
Nowell, Justin
Riddle, W. C.
Squires, J. R.
Willoughby, W. H.
Williams, J. B.
467— Crumpler.
R. L. Weaver, S. D.
W. N. Ballow, J. D.
J. L. Ballow, S.
G. N. Ballow, S.
J. E. Reynolds, Tiler.
F. Edwards, J. E. Rey-
Jones, J. F.
Jones, John A
Little, G. E.
Luncford, S.
HEALING SPRINGS LODGE, No.
OFFICERS.
J. M. Ballow, M.
P. L. McMillan, S. W.
J. H. Noblitt, J. W.
J. U. Ballow, Treas.
R. F. Edwards, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. H. Noblitt, R.
nolds.
MEMBERS.
Ballow, R. L. Caridill, J. W.
Brooks, F. E. Davis, George W.
Barker, W. F. Davis, J. N.
Caldwell, A. J. Jones, A. M.
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Miller, J. M.
Plummer, S.
Pierce, I. M.
Price, J. R.
Penington, Dr. S. E.
Porter, George W.
Sturgill, W. S.
Stamper, E. V.
Spence, R. C.
Sawyer, George W.
Weaver, John A.
Witherspoon, A. G.
Witherspoon, R. P.
Walters, J. E.
Yates, L. F.
MILLINGPORT LODGE, No. 468— Mielingport.
Regular Communications Saturday before the first and third Sundays
in each month.
Dr. D. P. Whitley, M.
D. F. Lefler, S. W.
M. F. Furr, J. W.
R. D. Lowder, Treas.
E. Eudy, Sec.
Almond, Caleb
Burleyson, John
Crowell, H. A.
Eudy, Alex.
Elliott, G. I. J.
Efird, A. T.
Furr, Wm. E.
Green, George
Harward, W. H.
OFFICERS.
MEMBERS.
Harward, Daniel
Hartsell, V. J.
Hatley, John W.
Holt, Prof. J. Robert
Hurlocher, J. A.
Lipe, D. A.
Lowder, J. H.
Lipe, H. M.
Lipe, John H.
E. A. Huneycutt, S. D.
M. M. Furr, J. D.
G. D. Troutman, S.
T. P. Lowder, S.
J. E. Hatley, Tiler.
Lowder, Coleman
Lowder, Bennette
McGhee, Rev. W. P.
Miller, J. S.
Plyler, Rev. E- H.
Rowland, A. J.
Troutman, H. C.
Thomas, J. B.
SANFORD LODGE, No. 469 — Sanford.
Regular Communications second and fourth Tuesdays in each month
OFFICERS.
Dr. W. A. Monroe, M.
A. L. McNeill, S. W.
R. J. Register, J. W.
J. T. Webster, Treas.
J. R. Weatherspoon, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — S. P.
Bowers.
T. L. Bass, S. D.
N. T. Cobb, J. D.
G. W. Temple, S.
J. F. Bowers, S.
J. H. Wicker, Tiler.
Hatch, Dr. H. C. Williams, J. R.
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Aldrich, Ralph L.
Bowers, J. R.
Cox, J. L.
Craven, Rev. W. F.
Chisholm, T. L-
Carroll, S. H.
Crabtree, W. A.
Diggs, J. H.
Gunter, Levi
MEMBERS.
Hart, J. D.
Hatch, S. P.
Knight, Hugh
Lemon, George E-
McIntosh, J. W.
Mclver, J. D.
Mclver, R. E.
Nall, E. D.
Omohundro, J. T.
Perry, J. K.
Smith, C. H.
Scott, John W.
Siler, C. F.
Smith, S. C.
Stephens, J. M.
Williams, Dr. H. C.
SCOTLAND NECK LODGE, No. 470— Scotland Neck.
Regular Communications Thursday evenings.
OFFICERS.
Geo. T. Andrews, M.
G. Hoffman, S. W.
G. Lamb, J. W.
E. W. Hyman, Treas.
Orphan Asylum Committee — G. T.
C. H. Herring, Sec.
W. E. Whitmore, S. D.
S. F. Dunn, J. D.
James Pope, Tiler.
Andrews, J. E. Bowers, A. S. Dunn.
Bass, Turner
Barnes, G. M.
Brinkley, J. T.
Biggs, H. E-
Bowers, J. E.
Currie, W. T.
Durham, J. H.
Darden, W. P.
Harrell, W. L-
Hoffman, M.
MEMBERS.
Higgins, T. B.
Hardison, J.. R.
Johnson, J. T.
Johnson, G. H.
Kitchin, J. A.
Kitchin, H. B.
Kitchin, Claude
Leggett, K.
Leggett, J. W.
Leggett, M. G.
Madry, D. A.
Philpot, J. L-
Pope, J. R.
Smith, R. PI.
Shervette, R. E.
Vaudee, A. M.
Whitehead, F. W.
Whitehead, W. T.
White, A. A.
GRASSY KNOB LODGE, No. 471— OsbornvillE.
Regular Communications Friday before the fourth Sunday in each
month.
N. M. Felts, M.
W. G. Myers, S. W.
W. T. Comer, J. W.
W. C. Myers, Treas.
S. D. Lewis, Sec.
OFFICERS.
P. M. Reid, S. D.
L. W. Lonsford, J. D.
W. L. Harris, S.
P. Gregory, S.
J. P. McCarter, Tiler.
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Orphan Asylum Committee — L. W. Lonsforcl, G. W. Brown, W. H.
McCarter.
Anderson, W. E.
Brown, G. W.
Bolin, J. P.
Cheatham, Thomas
Combs, A L-
Chambers, James
Couch, E. M.
Felts, D. G.
Fletcher, P. C.
Garner, R. N.
Goodwin, A. H.
Goforth, S. T.
Henderson, J. S.
Hubbard, J. E.
Howard, J. M.
Jurney, N. G.
Jennings, T. L.
MEMBERS.
Jarvis, D. C.
Myers, W. A.
Myers, A. G.
Myers, L. C.
Myers, R. M.
McCarter, W. H.
Mitchell, M. A.
Mitchell, James
Myers, D. C.
Privett, J. M.
Privett, N. M.
Privett, W. R.
Privett, J. E.
Privett, Jacob E.
Reid, J. A.
Reid, J. L.
Reid, P. M.
Reid, R. L.
Rash. A. Y.
Somers, L. P.
Souther, Henry
Souther, J. A.
Speaks, Asbury
Souther, L. C.
Tulburt, C. H. M.
Templeton, C. C.
Williams, M. O.
Williams, J. P.
Williams, W. M.
Williams, M. M.
Weisner, B. E.
Welborn, J. R.
SONOMA LODGE, No. 472— Sonoma.
Regular Communications Thursday before the full moon iii each month.
M. D. Kinsland, M.
K. C. Cathey, S. W.
Ira P. Mann, J. W.
J. K. Cathey, Treas.
T. R. Hyatt, Sec.
OFFICERS.
W. A. Moore, S. D.
J. F. Justice, J. D.
J. W. Cathey, S.
J. M. Welch, S.
W. W. Hargrove, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. S. Terrell, W. H. Hargrove, T. R.
Hyatt.
members.
Blaylock, W. T.
Bowring, W. M.
Burnett, A E-
Burnett, K. L.
Cathey, W. K.
Cathey, G. F.
Cogburn, J. F.
Cogburn, E. D.
Deaver, T. H.
Gorden, W. P.
Hargrove, H. C.
Hargrove, O. A.
Henson, I. L.
Plardin, S. R.
Kelley, J. P.
Kinsland, W. C.
Long, J. F.
Long, W. F.
Phillips, W. H.
Reynolds, D. S.
Singleton, T. D
Trull, M. E.
Terrell, P. L-
Wilson, W. W.
Williams, John
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LEXINGTON LODGE, No. 473— Lexington.
Regular Communications Friday before the new and full of the moon.
OFFICERS.
H. B. Varner, M.
J. M. Riley, S. W.
J. L. Peacock, J. W.
J. B. Smith, Treas.
James Adderton, Sec.
S. E. Williams, S. D.
J. D. Redwine, J. D.
T. S. F. Dorsett, S.
T. M. Sheets, S.
E- J. McGuire, Tiler,
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. L. Peacock, J. B Smith, T. S. F. Dor-
sett.
Crover, A. R., Jr.
Dodson, J. M.
Evans, J. R.
Fitzgerald, J. W.
Hunt, C. A., Jr.
Hunt, George E.
members.
Hedrick, Joe
Harris, W. C.
Koonts, W. M.
Kershner, L- M.
Leonard, J. C.
McCrary, Charles E.
Montcastle, G. W.
Swicegood, Alex.
Wade, P. J.
Wheeler, C. J.
Yorke, W. C.
ST. PAUL’S LODGE, No. 474 — St. Paul’s.
Regular Communications first Tuesday in each month.
OFFICERS.
A. R. McEachern, M.
W. S. Johnson, S. W.
Dr. T. L. Northrop, J. W.
Archie Odum, Treas.
N. T. Alford, Sec.
MEMBERS.
G. M. D. Howard, S. D.
A. B. Fisher, J. D.
A. Parham, S.
J. H. Fisher, Tiler.
Barker, M. J.
Burns, W. B.
Biggs, Z. P.
Bramble, W. J.
Britt, S. E.
Britt, O. M.
Bennett, Rev. J.
Carlyle, D. D.
Evans, A. D.
Fisher, J. A.
Fisher, Troy
Humphrey, N. T.
Harrell, Rev. R. W.
Harrell, K. E.
Jones, C. W.
Johnson, E. G.
Johnson, E. J.
McRainey, M. J.
McMillan, H. C.
McNeill, Archie
McDonald, W. F.
Parker, C. E.
Rowland, A. S.
Shaw, L.
Tolar, N. S.
White, Willis
Watson, C. W.
Wichard, J. R.
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GRIMESLAND LODGE, No. 475 — Grimeseand.
Regular Communications first and third Tuesdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. J. Elks, M.
W. S. Galloway, S. W.
W. E. Proctor, J. W.
J. 0. Proctor, Treas.
Alston Grimes, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. T. Buck, W.
Furnie Powell, S. D.
C. E. Boyd, J. D.
J. W. Mayo, S.
L. E. Elks, S.
Rufus Galloway, Tiler,
E. Tucker, W. E. Proctor.
Arnold, L. A.
MEMBERS.
Grimes, J. Bryan
Paul, Initte
Buck, G. R.
Galloway, J. B.
Roach, A. I.
Buck, J . T.
Galloway, W. H.
Roach, W. S.
Clark, N. L-
Jones, C. M.
Tilghman, L. B.
Cox, J. Marshall
Laughinghouse, J. J.
Tucker, W. E.
Edwards, Israel
Little, John W.
Venters, G. W.
Edwards, Fred
Mason, J. J.
Ward, J. M.
Edwards, L- S.
Mills, J. A.
Ward, C. C.
Elks, N. S.
Moore, Wm. Mat.
Ward, G. G.
BIG LICK LODGE, No. 476— Big Lick.
Regular Communications Saturday before first and third Sundays in
each month.
OFFICERS.
P. E. Hartsell, M.
D. E. Efird, S. W.
W. A. Cagle, J. W.
S. R. Green, Treas.
P. G. Hartsell, Sec
J. W. Efird, S. D.
K. L. Hathcock, J. D.
D. P. McSwain, S.
J. F. Morgan, S.
Washington Smith, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. A. Cagle, F. E. Hartsell, P. G. Hartsell.
Black, C. J.
Dry, C. A.
Eudy, Paul S.
Efird, P. J. C.
Furr, W M.
Faulk, PI. M.
MEMBERS.
Green, R. L.
Hooks, W. F
Hooks, J. W.
Hatley, Hardy
Nash, M. F.
Russell, M. P.
Smith, L. J.
Smith, J. W.
Tucker, J. C.
Thomas, S. C.
Walters, E. C
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EAGLE SPRINGS LODGE, No. 477 — Eagle Springs.
Regular Communications Saturday before the third Sunday in each
month and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
J. C. McDuffie, M.
S. P. Seawell, S. W.
N. Brewer, J. W.
L. B. Monroe, Treas.
Joseph C. Britt, Sec.
Mcl. Kennedy, S. D.
F. M. Monroe, J. D.
C. F. Monroe, S.
J. C. Morrison, S.
M. C. McDuffie, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Joseph C. Britt, F. M. Monroe.
Boyd, J. T.
Cos, L. B.
Kennedy, D. M.
Monroe, H. T.
McDonald,. N. A.
MEMBERS.
Monroe, J. A.
McKinnon, D. C.
Monroe, M. A.
McCaskill, A. B.
Nall, T. F.
Potts, W. H.
Reynolds, G. D. B.
Shields, H. M.
Williamson, J. C.
FOUR OAKS LODGE, No. 478— Four Oaks.
Regular Communications first Friday in each month.
OFFICERS.
T. E. Oliver, M.
W. E- Stanley, S. W.
J. A. Ford, J. W.
J. D. T. Wellons, Treas.
A. D. Ford, Sec.
N. M. Sherron, S. D.
Preston Ford, J. D.
W. F. Ford, S.
G. W. Stanley, S.
W. H. Hancock, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. H. Hancock, W. R. Stanley.
Adams, D. W.
Johnson, L. B.
Johnson, Elam
Keen, J W.
members.
Munden, J. R.
Wallace, C. A.
Wallace, R. I.
Waddell, G. P.
Warren, J. R.
Young, S. R.
RAINBOW LODGE, No. 479 — Arapahoe.
Regular Communications third Thursday in each month and 27th of
December.
OFFICERS.
H. A. Reel, M.
J. J. Bland, S. W.
A. C. Brinson, J. W.
G. W. Brinson, Treas.
G. T. Bennett, Sec.
C. F. Brinson, S. D
Leroy Dixon, J. D.
G. T. Bennett, S.
G. W. Brinson, S.
Z. H. Paul, Tiler.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Orphan Asylum Committee — H. A. Reel, J. J. Bland, A. C. Brinson.
MEMBERS.
Brinson, L. L. Land, T. A. Reel, W. R.
MILL CREEK LODGE, No. 480— Harpers.
Regular Communications Saturday before the fourth Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
Ira W. Langston, M.
E. F. Weaver, S. W.
James H. Lee, J. W.
Isaac I. Thornton, Treas.
S. D. Thornton, Sec.
Thomas Lee, S. D.
Steven Westbrook, J. D
E- L. Massengill, S.
W. B. Joyner, S.
N. K. Thornton, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Thomas Lee, W. B. Joyner, Uriah Den-
ning.
MEMBERS.
Cole, J. A.
Denning, Uriah
Edwards, G. E-
Edwards, C. M. Rose, J. W.
Ingram, Charles M. Weaver, W. R.
Joyner, W. B.
SPRING HOPE LODGE, No. 481— Spring Hope.
Regular Communications first Friday in each month and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
Alfred Wheless, Jr., M.
J110. C. Matthews, S. W.
Alsey T. Morgan, J. W.
Benj. W. Upchurch, Treas.
Jno. T. Fulford, Sec.
Willie B. Wheless, S. D.
E. B. Christman, J. D.
S. M. Wheless, S.
J. O. May, S.
I. E. Norman, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Levi Green, J. O. May, Alsey T. Morgan
Abernathy, W. H.
Abernathy, Jno. T.
Bunn, Geo. W.
Bergeron, Jno. N.
Batchelor, W. W.
Christman, Thos. R.
MEMBERS.
Dillard, Rev. H. C.
Finch, N. B.
Hocutte, Rev. J. E.
Joyner, Rev. L- H.
Mitchell, C. S.
Pridgen, E. W.
Parham, Asa
Richardson, W. W.
Stallings, W. A.
Warren, H. M.
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SALUDA LODGE, No. 482— Saluda.
Regular Communications fourth Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
E. Buncombe Goelet, M.
W. C. Robertson, S. W.
B. T. Boone, J. W.
R. F. Cline, Treas.
I. D. Morris, Sec.
Jules Baumberger, S. D,
W. A. Peace, J. D.
J. C. Gordon, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — I. D. Morris, B. T. Boone, W. C. Robert-
son.
members.
Baumberger, R. Fisher, J. C. Thorne, J. N.
Denton, R. A.
ABERDEEN LODGE, No. 484 — Southern Pines.
Regular Communications third Thursday in each month.
OFFICERS.
David Knight, M.
J. N. Powell, S. W.
F. A. Ordway, J. W.
J. McN. Johnson, Treas.
Beard, George E.
Beck, P. H.
Creel, T. B.
Elliott, J. W.
Gladman, Edwin
Hunter, N. S.
Hutchinson, George
Leach, Charles
members.
Leavett, Eugene
Moore, H. S.
Parker, G. R.
Parker, H. O.
Peck, C. E.
Shaw, C. VV.
Spinney, Arthur
William W. Maurer, Sec.
I. A. Thompson, S. D.
C. T. Patch, J. D.
D. A. McLauchlin, Tiler.
Stevens, J. Leo
Thurston, D. B.
Thurston, H. L.
Thomas, S. W.
Vale, Charles E.
Wood, Allen F.
Weaver, F. H.
BRASSTOWN LODGE, No. 485— Ballew.
Regular Communications first Saturday in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. J. Martin, Jr., M.
J. B. Martin, S. W.
R. B. Hampton, J. W.
J. A. Hampton, Treas.
M. C. Cunningham, Sec.
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A. H. Cunningham, S. D.
Arch. Ballew, J. D.
J. M. Standridge, S.
G. D. Ricks, S.
J. H. Sherlin, Tiler.
298
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. H. Brendle, A. H. Cunningham, C. F.
Martin.
Brendle, J. H.
Cunningham, R. A.
Cunningham, J. F.
Coffey, R. W. .
Hampton, A. M.
Hogan, N. R.
MEMBERS.
Haigler, R. L.
Jenkins, William
Martin, W. J.
Martin, C. F.
Martin, W. P.
Platt, J. T.
Standridge, J. B.
Standridge, J. R.
Scroggs, L. L*
Thrift, P. M.
LAWNDALE LODGE, No. 486— Lawndale.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before the full moon in each
month.
J. M. Wilson, M.
T. B. Richard, S. W.
O.O. Rollins, J. W.
D. C. Rollins, Treas.
G. N. Turner, Sec.
Abernathy, W. A.
Branton, D. A.
Denton, W. B.
Falls, B. F.
Grigg, F. C.
OFFICERS.
MEMBERS.
Lattimore, J. B.
Lattimore, F.
Laughridge, J. C.
Laughridge, Ed.
Petty, M. P.
J. R. Willis, S. D.
J. C. Eskridge, J. D.
J. A. Boyles, S.
C. E. Wortman, S.
J. L. Price, Tiler.
C. E. Wortman, J. C.
Packard, W. L-
Scheuck, H. F.
Weathers, D. S.
Wortman, C. E-
Orphan Asylum Committee — A. F. Newton,
Eskridge.
STATESVILLE LODGE, No. 487— Statesvieee.
Regular Communications first and third Tuesdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
S. L. Parks, M.
James D. Cochrane, S. W.
Julius Wallace, J. W.
John W. Grey, Treas.
C. J. Jones, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — A.
Gilbert.
A. J. Evans, S. D.
J. H. Wycoff, J. D.
J. H. Hall, S.
H. C. Gaither, S.
D. C. Rufty, Tiler.
D. Cooper, P. F. Langenour, W. L
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Axley, F. J.
Cowles, H. C.
Cooper, J. A.
Cooper, W. M.
Colvert, John G.
Clifford, H. W.
Dayvault, W. N.
Eubanks, S. D.
Fleming, R. J.
Gibbs, J. M.
Harrill, L.
MEMBERS.
Harrison, N.
Harris, W. D.
Henry, K. \V.
Hoffman, J. H.
Irvin, J. C.
Kaufman, Felix
Karcher, G.
Lamprecht, J. U.
Miller, D. A.
Nooe, R. E.
Richard, C. M.
Simon, Sol.
Scott, H.
Sloan, W. R.
Stephaney, J.
Tomlin, C. S.
Turner, A.
Turner, W. W.
Tunstall, W. P.
Webb, C. B.
RICH SQUARE LODGE, No. 488 — Rich Square.
Regular Communications Friday before the second Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
W. E. Spivey, M.
J. W. Weaver, S. W.
E. D. Spivey, J. W.
E. Baugham, Treas.
J. M. Weaver, Sec.
J. T. Elliott, S. D.
C. L. Spivey, J. D
J. B. Bryan, S.
L. L. Shoulars, S.
M. P. Allen, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. T. Elliott, J.
W. Weaver, J. Baugham.
MEMBERS.
Bolton, Dr. M.
Bolton, J. C.
Baugham, John
Conner, A. J.
Conner, C. G.
Draper, A. J.
Futrell, J. N.
Futrell, J. T.
Lassiter, J. T.
Shoulars, J. F,
Vann, Albert
BUGGABOO LODGE, No. 490 — Dimmette.
Regular Communications Saturday before the second Sunday in each
month.
C. F. Fields, M.
S. Poplin, S. W.
J. F. Burchette, J. W.
J. O. Hoots, Treas.
J. I. Dimmette, Sec.
M. H. Walls, S. D.
D. F. Tharp, J. D.
L- S. Hoots, S.
J. W. Dimmette, S.
A. M. Blackborn, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. B. Blackborn, M. H. Walls, R. T. Hol-
brooks.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Blackborn, J. B.
Byrd, J. T.
Carter, C. H.
MEMBERS.
Darnell, C. P.
Durham, B. R.
Holbrooks, H. S.
Holbrooks, R. T
O’Daniels, O. T.
Thorp, W. A.
PIOMINY DODGE, No. 491— Hominy Creek.
Regular Communications third Saturday in each month.
OEFICERS.
J. H. Holcombe, M.
D. L. Welch, S. W.
R. M. Holcombe, J. W.
M. P. Courtney, Treas.
J. C. Bird, Sec.
Jas. Plemons, S. D.
J. W. Rutherford, J. D
J. A. Pendlan, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — R. D. Buckner, D. L. Welch, J. W. Ruther-
ford.
Buckner, R. D.
Davis, L. E.
Jones, G. P.
members.
Malinee, W. G.
Rhodes, E- J.
Warren, William
Warren, A. B.
THOMAS M. HOLT LODGE, No. 492— Graham.
Regular Communications first Friday in each month.
OFFICERS.
J. L- Scott, Jr., M.
H. W. Scott, S. W.
McBride Holt, J. W.
J. C. Simmons, Treas.
Charles C. Thompson, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — McBride Holt, J.
Thompson.
MEMBERS.
Albright, George W.
Cook, Robert N.
Cook, Henry S.
Estlow, Grant
Foust, Thomas C.
Holt, McBride
Long, J. A.
Mennefee, J. W.
Moore, W. C.
Mitchell, W. A.
Montgomery, T. C.
Record, A. M.
Scott, H. W.
Scott, J. L.. Jr.
Scott, J. L., Sr.
A. J. Thompson, S. D.
G. W. Albright, J. D.
Grant Estlow, S.
J. A. Long, S.
W. C. Moore, Tiler.
C. Simmons, Charles C
Scott, Charles A.
Simmons, J. C.
Teal, J. L.
Thompson, A. J.
Thompson, Charles C.
Woods, W. A.
Williamson, F. L.
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PILOT LODGE, No. 493 — Pilot Mountain.
Regular Communications first and third Saturdays in each month.
officers.
G. W. Samuel, M.
W. P. Mounce, S. W.
R H. Redman, J. W.
Daniel Marion, Treas.
J. F. Stephens, Sec.
R. H. M. Dunn, S. D
J. T. Herrin, J. D.
J. R. Forkner, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Daniel Marion, W. P. Mounce, R. H. Red-
man.
MEMBERS.
Bondurant, J. W.
Boyles, J. W.
Dunman, W. R.
Fulk, S. W.
Faries, G. W.
Redman, G. G.
Redman, C. E.
Royal, H. V.
Snow, F. A.
JOHN A. GRAVES LODGE, No. 494 — Yanceyville.
Regular Communications third Monday in each month.
S. A. Malloy, M.
F. A. Puison, S. W.
J. F. Badgett, J. W.
E. Slade, Treas.
F. W. Brown, Sec.
OFFICERS.
E. L. Graves, S. D.
J. W. Fuqua, J. D.
R. S. Mitchell, S.
J. C. Allison, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — S. G. Woods, M. Oliver, Dr. Geo. Gunn.
Allison, E. A.
Blackwell, E. B.
Blackwell, A. R.
Barker, E. B.
Graves, B. S.
Gatewood, W. J.
Harrison, T. S.
MEMBERS.
Hodges, J. M.
Hodges, H. E.
Jones, J. A.
Lillard, A. T.
McCrary, T. M.
Mitchell, A. J.
Mims, M.
Nash, W. D.
Pleasant, W. H.
Reid, A. L.
Siddle, J. W.
Travis, J. F M.
Turner, J. B.
' ROCKINGHAM LODGE, No. 495— Rockingham.
Regular Communications first and third Tuesdays in each month.
officers.
William J. Fulford, M.
George S. Steele, S. W
W. S. Fowlkes, J. W.
W. N. Everett, Treas.
J. L. Bundy, Sec.
W. T. Fulford, S. D.
J. R. Jones, J. D.
H. D. Ledbetter, S.
John L. Everett, S.
F. E- Keller, Tiler.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Orphan Asylum Committee — E. M. Boggan, J. M. Stansill, W. F. L
Steele.
Biggs, S.
Brewer, R. F.
Coppedge, W. R.
Covington, O. G.
Dockery, H. C.
Everett, W. I.
Elmore, J. R.
Everett, J. LeGrand
Edwards, J. T.
MEMBERS.
Evans, C. L.
Hamer, J. F.
Hamilton, E. L.
Jenkinson, R. S.
Ledbetter, J. S.
Moore, W. H.
Mclver, M. N.
Nicholson, A. B.
O’Brien, J. W.
Palmer, B. F.
Russell, M. H.
Roberts, W. H.
Thomas, R. L.
Williamson, J. H.
Wright, Thomas S.
Warburton, George
MOORESVILLE LODGE, No. 496 — Mooresvirre.
Regular Communications first Saturday and third Friday in each month.
OFFICERS
J. P. Harwell, M.
R. W. Lowrance, S. W.
S. J. Pressly, J. W.
J. E. Powers, Treas.
H. A. Ludwig, Sec.
Allison, J. A.
Atwell, M. M.
Belk, H. W.
Brawley, S. J.
Caldwell, R. J.
Connolly, L. R.
Colson, A. W.
MEMBERS.
Davis, Jno. F.
Fisher, Jos. S.
Gabriel, W. A.
Huneycutt, L. L.
Lambert, A.
Long, J. W.
Rogers, L- B.
J. T. Hudson, S. D.
H. Eudy, J. D.
B. A. Troutman, S.
W. R. Harwell, S.
J. A. McNeely, Tiler.
Shinn, Jas. L.
Smith, M. M.
Smith, Wm.
Turner, D. E.
White, M. M.
‘White, Jas. A.
ROYAL HART LODGE, No. 497 — Littreton.
Regular Communications second and fourth Mondays in each month
and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
Thomas N. Harrison, M.
R. J. Lewis, S. W.
J. H. Harrison, J. W.
W. E. Bowers, Treas.
J. S. Dixon, Sec.
E. B. Perry, Jr., S. D.
A. W. Fetter, J. D.
N. M. Harrison, S.
W. H. Johnson, S.
C. S. Northington, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — F. A. Fetter, Jr., C. S. Northington, C. H.
Whitaker.
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Brickell, C. B.
Browing, B. Ray
Burroughs, B. H.
Cordle, H. J.
Cutchin, J.
MEMBERS.
Daniels, S. G.
Fetter, F. A., Jr.
Fimple, W. W.
Harrison, C. G.
Heptinstall, J. O.
Nicholson, B. B.
Powell, H. L.
Rosser, W. W.
Thompson, R. A.
Whitaker, C. H.
AYDEN LODGE, No. 498— Ayden.
Regular Communications first and third Thursdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
C. E. Spier, S. D.
J. M. Dixon, J. D.
J. R. Smith, S.
J. W. Ouinerly, S.
Joyner Wingate, Tiler,
Smith, J. W. Ouinerly, J. M. Dixon,
R. W. Smith, M.
J. J. May, S. W.
J. R. McLawhon, J. W.
L- C. Quinerly, Treas.
J. W. Taylor, Sec.
Ange, A. W.
Brooks, H. C.
Blount, H. L.
Buhtnann, F. G.
Davis, J. A.
Edwards, W. C.
Goodrich, J. W.
House, W. L.
Hurst, W. L.
Hardy, H. S.
-J. R.
MEMBERS.
Harris, J. H.
Harrington, A. L-
Hart, J. E.
Jackson, R. R.
Joyner, Amos
Johnson, T. F.
Kittrell, L. L.
Lang, J.
Manning, B. F.
McLawhon, David
McLawhon, Fred
Nobles, W. B.
Pearce, John
Smith, J. J.
Spier, J. R.
Venters, H. C.
Williams, Absalom
Williams, W. D.
Wingate, W. B.
Orphan Asylum Committee —
CREEDMOOR LODGE, No. 499— Creedmoor.
Regular Communications Saturday before the third Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
Dr. J. F. Sanderford, M,
S. L. Moss, S. W.
M. L. Winston, Treas.
R. PI. Rogers, Sec.
J. L. Peed, S. D.
J. R. Neathery, J. D.
W. H. Hobgood, S.
J. M. Tengen, S.
J. O. Pleasant, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — B. E- Moss, J. R. Neathery, R. H. Rogers.
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PROCEEDINGS OB' THE
Aiken, T. D.
Beck, W. A.
Beck, J. M.
Chappell, J. W.
Cottrell, E. T.
Fleming, R. N.
Fuller, J. C.
Freeman, E. E.
Gattis, T. J.
members.
Hester, W. A.
Hobgood, G. G.
Johnson, G. A.
Keith, J. H.
Longmire, L- H.
Lyon, E. E-
Mangum, E. E.
O’Briant, J. R.
O’Briant, W. H.
O’Briant, W. R.
O’Briant, C. T.
Pleasant, W. D.
Perry, E. M.
Thomasson, T. M
Wagstaff, D. P.
Wagstaff, L.
Yeargain, R. E.
RALEIGH LODGE, No. 500 — Rareigh.
Regular Communications first and third Fridays in each month.
OFFICERS.
H. C. Butler, M.
F. F. Harding, S. W.
W. R. Smith, J. W.
M. S. Clark, Treas.
W. E- Faison, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee
Adams, M. J.
Atwood, A. G.
Brinkley, G. W.
Chamberlain, A. L.
Drew, J. A.
Faison, W. A.
Gaskins, J. D.
Green, A. H.
Green, O. D.
— C. D. Wildes, L.
members.
Harding, W. T.
Hodgson, John
Horton, W. T.
Hunter, R. T.
Ivey, T. N.
Kendrick, H. O.
Marshall, A. A.
Massingill, J. B.
McLean, D. P.
A. H. Ball, S. D.
O. M. Minor, J. D.
R. T. Moore, S.
E. H. Baker, S.
L. G. Rogers, Tiler.
G. Rogers, A. H. Ball.
Midgley, C. P.
Nowell, W. L.
Parrish, D. B.
Smith, Z. P.
Snider, C. F.
Vaughn, E. H.
White, W. E-
Wildes, C. D.
RED SPRINGS LODGE, No. 501— Red Springs.
Regular Communications Monday after the second Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
J. G. Williams, M.
L. M. Cook, S. W.
J. D. Moore, J. W.
Peter McQueen, Treas.
A. H. Prince, Sec.
J. R. Edmundson, S. D.
R. F. Currie, J. D.
Hector Currie, S.
Martin McNeill, S.
J. D. McNeill, Tiler.
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
305
Orphan Asylum Committee — I. T. Brown, A. H. Prince, Martin McNeill.
MEMBERS.
Buie, J. D.
Breece, A M.
Brown, J. Mcl.
Brown, I. T.
Brown, Jno. F.
Brown, H. M.
Burkett, J. B.
Chitty, O. P.
Huggins, J. A.
Love, J. A.
Moore, R. A.
McMillan, Dr. B. F.
McMillan, Dr. J. L.
McKoy, J. F.
McNeill, E. C.
Smith, J. P.
Toler, W. C.
COOKVILLE LODGE, No. 502— Cook.
Regular Communications Saturday on or after each full moon and June
24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
J. A. Cook, M.
P. W. Hamat, S. W.
N. S. Bass, J. W.
C. C. Cook, Treas.
C. Z. Hoyle, Sec.
W. H. Young, S. D
W. J. Huss, J. D.
D. M. Brittain, S.
J. G. Hollifield, S.
D. H. Sain, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — W. W. Gilbert, C. L- Havnaer, N. S. Bass.
Cook, J. L.
Ford, F. T.
Havnaer, J. C.
Holly, W. A.
Keener, D. C.
Lingerfelt, Frank
Nagle, J. J.
MEMBERS.
Pendleton, H. L.
Petrie, R. W.
Ramsour, E. F.
Reep, P. A.
Ritchie, J. M.
Sain, J . Z.
Sain, A. P.
Sain, A. A.
Sherrill, Albert
Sharp, M. P.
Wilkie, G. A.
Wright, J. A.
York, W. H.
BUIES CREEK LODGE, No. 503— Buies Creek.
Regular Communications Friday before the third Sunday in each
month and June 24th and December 27th.
OFFICERS.
Rev. A. N. Campbell, M.
A. A. Waddell, S. W.
W. J. Long, J. W.
W. M. Sexton, Treas.
F. H. Taylor, Sec.
W. T Morgan, S. D.
A. N. Waddell, J. D.
A. M. Johnson, S.
J. D. Upchurch, S.
J. R. Mitchell, Tiler.
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306
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Orphan Asylum Committee — A. N. Campbell, A. A. Waddell, W. J.
Long.
Crowder, R. B.
Campbell, B. F.
Campbell, J. A.
MEMBERS.
Hunt, G. W. Mitchell, R. M.
Long, G. H. Salmon, S. A.
McNeill, Dr. W. M.
LUKE McGLAUGH AN LODGE, No. 504— Ahosicie.
Regular Communications first Friday in each month.
OFFICERS.
Dr. J. H. Mitchell, M.
F. Powell, S. W.
J. R. Garrett, J. W.
A. E. Garrett, Treas.
A. O. Kiff, Sec.
C. N. Godwin, S. D.
D. J. Lewis, J. D.
K. Holloman, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — Dr. J. H. Mitchell, F. Powell, J. R. Gar-
rett.
Baker, R. J.
Cowan, R. E.
Green, J. W.
Harrell, G. C
Jilcott, J. T.
MEMBERS.
Lowe, J. D.
Liverman, J. T.
Lowe, R. F.
Matthews, J. R.
Mitchell, G. H.
Piland, W. H.
Parker, J. D.
Rice, M. L.
Stokes, Henry
Scull, Bismarck
CHERRYVILLE LODGE, No. 505 — Cherryvilee.
Regular Communications Saturday on or after the full moon in each
J. L- Beam, M.
month.
OFFICERS.
L. B. Leonhardt, S. D.
J. L- Stroup, S. W.
A. H. Huss, J. D.
J. J. Carpenter, J. W.
S. A. Fowler, S.
E. M. Berry, Treas.
A. W. Howell, S.
J. B. Houser, Sec.
J. A. Stroup, Tiler.
Carpenter, J. H.
MEMBERS.
Houser, W. H.
Stroup, C. P.
Craft, J. W.
Huss, G. D.
Sellers, H. S.
Hendricks, William
Lindsay, J. M.
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
307
UNAKA LODGE, No. 506— Unaka.
Regular Communications Saturday before the fourth Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
J. W. Blackwell, M.
D. M. Matheson, S. W.
J. T. L. Hartless, J. VV.
C. C. Gentry, Treas.
U. S. G. Phillips, Sec.
MEMBERS.
S. C. Gentry, S. D.
W. J. Hammonds, J. D.
J. K. Bryson, S.
W. L. Burgess, S.
E. F. Thompson, Tiler.
Burgess, A. D.
Barton, H. E.
Burgess, C. S.
Johnson, U. H
Jenkins, C. S.
McNabb, Ed
Marrow, W. M.
Martin, J. M.
Moore, S. H.
Mooreland, J. A.
McNabb, J. L.
McNabb, W. L.
Rice, G. P.
Underwood, J. M.
Williams, Henry
LATTIMORE LODGE, No. 508— LaTTimore.
Regular Communications Saturday on or before the full moon in each
month.
OFFICERS.
J. L. Green, M.
L. V. Lee, S. W.
C. A. Hamrick, J. W.
T. P. Hamrick, Treas.
A. M. Lattimore, Sec.
J. C. Bridges, S. D.
E. M. Hamrick, J. D
J. L. Hamrick, S.
E. J. Bridges, S.
W. B. Green, Tiler.
MEMBERS.
Hawkins, J. B. Magness, J. J. Wright, T. B.
Jones, W. J. Washburn, C. A.
BELHAVEN LODGE, No. 509— Belhaven.
Regular Communications second and fourth Tuesdays in each month
OFFICERS.
W. B. Tooley, M.
A. M. Hawkins, S. W.
R. B. Munden, J. W.
C. C. Smith, Treas.
Thos. H. Whittey, Sec.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. M.
Whittey.
A. S. Johnston, S. D.
J. M. Lupton, J. D.
A. T. Martin, S.
E- S. Waters, S.
J. E. Johnston, Tiler.
Lupton, A. S. Johnston, Thos. H.
308
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
LONE HICKORY LODGE, No. 512— Near Footviele.
Regular Communications Saturday on or after each full moon.
OFFICERS.
J. M. Smith, M.
S. L. Reece, S. W.
J. W. Miller, J. W.
S. F. Fleming, Treas.
Elwood E. Smith, Sec.
MEMBERS-
D. D. Angell, S. D.
J. H. Vestal, J. D.
C. L. Cook, S.
F. W. Haynes, S.
W. H. Cook, Tiler.
Arnold, J. W.
Cook, J. B.
Foot, T. V.
Martin, W. D.
Miller, L. F.
Reinhart, H. G.
Winsor, L- L.
Wooten, F. O.
FARMVILLE LODGE, U. D.
— FARMVIEEE.
OFFICERS.
Geo. W. Freeman, M.
R. R. Bailey, S. W.
A. S. J. Bynum, J. W.
J. T. Parker, Treas.
MEMBERS.
S. J. Parker, Sec.
Bedford Jones, S. D.
Isham Gay, J. D.
A. N. Worthington, Tiler.
Askew, W. C.
Bundy, J. T.
Hearne, W. A. B.
Parker, J. M.
WHETSTONE LODGE, U. D.— Bessemer City.
Regular Communications third Friday in each month.
OFFICERS.
C. E. Whitney, M.
C. M. Cooke, Jr., S. W.
C. A. Thornburg, J. W.
S. J. Durham, Treas.
Orphan Asylum Committee — S. J. Durham.
Clarke, C. C.
Clarke, H. W
Clarke, T. S.
Dabbs, B. R.
Erwin, J. T.
MEMBERS.
Fowler, G. P.
Garrison, FI. N.
Hay, W. S.
Jenkins, J. A.
Kennedy, J. J.
J. H. Wilkins, Sec.
S. J. Durham, S. D
J. J. Ormond, J. D.
D. K. Tate, Tiler.
King, S. M.
Pell, Edward
Scarboro, R. E-
Simpson, J. B.
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
309
SCOTLAND LODGE, IT. D.— Gibson.
Regular Communications Thursday once a month on or before each
o
W. F. Parker, M.
W. J. Adams, S. W.
T. M. Adams, J. W.
full moon.
OFFICERS.
Simeon Gibson, S. D.
W. B. Adams, J. D.
D. J. Odom, S
J. M. Hunsucker, Treas.
W. B. Sedberry, Sec.
MEMBERS.
A. D. Covington, S.
Raiford Gibson, Tiler.
Gibson, Wm. H.
Pate, Dr. Wm. T.
Smith, Sidney J.
Gibson, Henry D.
Stubbs, Henry Wade
Schneider, Harry
AULANDER LODGE, U. D.— Aulander.
Regular Communications Friday before each full moon.
OFFICERS.
J. C. Tynes, M.
J. Lawrance Herrington, S. VV.
Elect Lassiter, J. W.
J. U. Vaughn, Treas.
D. M. Alford, Sec.
H. L. Early, S. D.
A. P. Wilson, J. D.
J. H. Eure, S.
W. M. Parker, S.
R. M. Harmon, Tiler.
MEMBERS.
Early, W. H. Rackley, S. R. Wood, M. L.
Herrington, John L.
ROBERDELL LODGE, U. D. — RoberdelL.
Regular Communications second and fourth Tuesdays in each month.
OFFICERS.
W. R. Gordon, M.
W. W. Dunn, S. D.
J. W. Culberson, S. W.
J. A. Goodman, J. D.
D. W. Sedbury, J. W.
J. C. Key, S.
John A. Baker, Treas.
W. F. Byrd, S.
John A. Baker, Sec.
J. H. Roberson, Tiler.
MEMBERS.
Byrd, L. W. Hicks, C. T.
Garrett, F. J. Nicholson, J. W.
Ormsby, J. R.
310
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
SYLVA LODGE, U. D.-Syeva.
Regular Communications second and fourth Fridays in each month.
M. Buchanan, M.
J. E. McLaine, S. W.
E. L. McKee, J. W.
Judson Allen, Treas.
J. S. Calhoun, Sec.
Allison, S. C.
Allison, R. F.
Allen, C. B.
Allen, J. S.
OFFICERS.
MEMBERS.
Bryson, D. G.
Bright, T.
Crumley, H. C.
Cowan, M. D.
C. Buchanan, S. D
C. W. Allen, J. D.
A. B. Dills, S.
T. J. Love, S.
L. P. Allen, Tiler.
Knight, M. L.
Morris, M. H.
Thomas, A. B.
CAROLEEN LODGE, U. D. — CaroeeEn.
Regular Communications Saturday before the first Sunday in each
month.
OFFICERS.
W. B. Moore, M.
J. R. Moore, S. W.
W. S. Hicks, J. W.
H. Haywood, Treas.
Thomas P. Reynolds, Sec.
MEMBERS.
Butler, W. E.
Boone, G. G.
Duval, L. D.
Hughes, R.
Hicks, O.
Hamrick, T. G
Lytton, J. W.
Mollard, J. T.
McDade, J. W.
Roberts, E-
H. H. Tucker, S. D.
C. C. Blanton, J. D.
C. E. Dobbins, S.
J. H. Harris, Tiler.
Ramsey, P. S.
Ramsey, John
Steedman, J. H.
Tucker, L. J.
Whisnant, A. M.
BARN ARDSVILLE LODGE, U. D. — BarnardsvileE.
officers.
W. A. Robertson, M. N. T. Buckner, S. D.
A. I. Ingle, S. W. C. H. Dillingham, J. D.
A. M. Dillingham, J. W. John Greeg, S.
James M. Greenwood, Treas. S. T. Halcombe, S.
M. A. Whitemore, Sec. Joel Brigmond, Tiler.
Orphan Asylum Committee — J. G. Anders, J. Banks, A. M. Dillingham.
Anders, M. H.
Burlison, A. J.
Carter, J. B.
Maney, W. R.
MEMBERS.
Maney, L. D.
McDarius, W. H.
McDarius, R H.
McMahon, C. H.
Robertson, W. C.
Ray, J. L.
Whitemore, J. M.
Whittiker, Mannin
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
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INDEX.
A
PAGES.
Addresses of Grand Officers 2
Abstract of Returns from Subordinate Lodges 134 — 145
Allen claim 94 — 96, 109
Ancient Proceedings — Resolution to publish 92
Ancient Proceedings : Appendix No. 2
Appeals — Reports of Committee on 91 — 92, 93, 109 — no
Auditor — Reports of - 73 — 76
c
Carr, Julian S. — Thanks tendered to 105
Charters and Dispensations — Report of Committee No. 1 on.... 80
Charters and Dispensations — Report of Committee No. 2 on.... 80 — 81
Codification of laws and decisions of Grand Masters — Reso-
lution regarding 85
Credentials — Report of Committee on 6 — 13
Custodians of the Work — Resolution to appoint T04
D
Decisions and laws of Grand Lodge — Appointment of Commit-
tee to codify. 109
Director of Orphan Asylum — Elected 105
Duke, B. N. — Committee to draft resolutions regarding resig-
nation of 84 — 85
Duke, B. N. — Resolutions of thanks to 93 — 94
F
Finance — Report of Committee on 89
First day — Evening session 5 — 72
Foreign Correspondence Appendix No. 1
Foreign Grand Lodges 129 — 130
Fraternal Dead — Report of Committee on 88 — 89
G
Grand Librarian — Appointed 116
Grand Lodge of Cuba — Special report of Committee upon re-
quest of Appendix No. 1
Grand Lodges 131
312
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Grand, Master — Address of ----- - - 16 — 26
State of the Craft 17 — 18
Dispensations for new lodges 18
Grand Lecturers 18—19
Dispensations = 19 — 20
Decisions 20 — 21
Suspensions 21
Sister Grand Jurisdictions 21 — 22
Fraternal Dead 22 — 23
Special Communications ; 23
Orphan Asylum - 23 — 25
Recommendations 25
Grand Master’s Address — Report of Special Committee on 78 — 79
Grand Officers— Election of 104
Grand Officers — List of 3
Grand Officers — Installation of no
Grand Officers present 5
Grand Orator — Address of 54 — 70
Grand Orator — Appointed 116
Grand Orator — Resolution thanking 71
Grand Representatives present 6
Grand Secretaries — Addresses of 131
Grand Secretary — • Present for 79 — 80
Grand Secretary — Report of 30 — 35
New lodges 31
Lodges revived 32
Continued under dispensation 32
Charters surrendered 32
Grand Representatives 32 — 33
Report of Grand Librarian « 33 — 34
Revenue 34
Recapitulation of returns 35
Grand Treasurer — Report of 27 — 29
Installing Officers — Committee appointed to select... 105
Installation— Report of Committee on 106
Invitation to visit School for Deaf and Blind 71
Invitation to visit Baptist Female University 82
Invitation to attend Good Roads Convention 106 — 107
Invitation from Southern Bell Telephone Company to use
lines free of cost 107
GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA. 313
J
Jurisprudence — Report of Committee on 10S
L
Lodges — List of 117 — 128
M
Masonic Temple — Resolution relative to 81
o
Orphan Asylum— Advisory Board . 115
Orphan Asylum — Report of Board of Directors of 36 — 39
Orphan Asylum — Report of Treasurer of 40 — 42
Orphan Asylum — Report of Superintendent of 42 — 53
Orphan Asylum — Report of Committee on 83 — 84
Orphan Asylum — Resolution requesting Directors to attend
Communications of Grand Lodge .. 107
P
Past Grand Officers present . 5
Petition for Degrees — Resolution amending form of 82
Propositions and Grievances — Report of Committee on 109
R
Representatives of Grand Lodge of North Carolina... 133
Representatives of other Grand Lodges 132
Resolution relative to per capita tax 77
Resolution relative to system of work — Tabled 107
Returns of Subordinate Lodges — Report of Committee No. 1
on 99 — 101
Returns of Subordinate Lodges — Report of Committee No. 2
on 89 — 91
Returns of Subordinate Lodges — Report of Committee No. 3
on 86 — 87
Returns of Subordinate Lodges 148 — 310
Royster, B. S. — Past Master’s jewel presented to hi — 113
Royster, B. S. — Response of - 114 — 115
s
Second day — Morning session 73 — 87
Second day — Afternoon session 88 — 97
Second day — Evening session 98 — ro5
Special Committee on Charity — Report of 76 — 77
Special Committee on recommendation of Grand Master in
regard to the system of work 81
40
314
PROCEEDINGS OF THE GRAND LODGE.
Special Committee to prefer charges against suspended Masters 81
Special Communication 146 — 147
Standing Committees 71 — 72
Standing Committees for ensuing year 115
Suspension of Masters — Reports of Special Committee on 101 — 103
T
Third day — Morning Session 106 — 116
u
Unfinished Business — Report of Committee on 85
w
Walker, Bernice — Motion relative to maintenance of 82 — 83
Winston, F. D. — Letter from 13 — 16
Winston, F. D. — Telegram from 107 — 108
Work of Subordinate Lodges— Report of Special Committee on 98 — 99
Report of foreign 'Correspondence,
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Masons of North
Carolina :
Your Committee on Correspondence begs leave to pre-
sent its Special Report on the request of the Grand Lodge
of Cuba for fraternal recognition, and its Sixth Annual
Report on the general condition of Freemasonry as dis-
closed in the review of the transactions of sixty-two sister
Grand Lodges.
Fraternally submitted,
Jno. A. Collins,
for the Committee.
LIST CF GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS REVIEWED, 58; VOLUMES, 63,
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Maine ... . .
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Arkansas. . .
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Maryland
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British Columbia _ __
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Massachusetts.
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California . . . .
_ . . . I9OO
Michigan . .
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Canada . .
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Minnesota .
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Colorado
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Mississippi
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Connecticut.. . -
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Missouri . . .
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Delaware . .
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Montana ...
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District of Columbia
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Nebraska . . . _
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England
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N evada .... . .
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Florida.
. I9OI
New Brunswick .
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Georgia . _
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New Hampshire
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Idaho .
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New Jersey .
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Illinois . .
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New South Wales _.
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Indiana _ ...... . _
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New York . . .
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Indian Territory...
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New Zealand. ......
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Iowa . -. . .
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North Dakota .. _
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Ireland
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Nova Scotia
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Kansas
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Ohio . . . .
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Kentucky
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Oklahoma . .
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Louisiana ...
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Oregon _ . . .
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APPENDIX.
Pennsylvania iqoo
Prince Edward Island — . _ .1901
Quebec .1901
Rhode Island 1899, 1900, 1901
South Australia 1901
South Dakota . 1901
Tennessee 1901
Texas 1900
Utah .... 1901
Vermont 1901
V irginia ... 1 900
West Virginia 1900
Wisconsin .1901
Wyoming 1901
Missing — New Mexico, Scotland, South Carolina, Vic-
toria.
Special Report of the Committee on Correspondence
upon the Request for Fraternal Recognition
by the Grand Lodge of the Island of Cuba.
At the Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of
North Carolina in January, 1901, the following report of the
jurisprudence Committee was adopted:
“Your Committee on Jurisprudence, to whom was referred the
attached communication from the Grand Lodge de la Isla de Cuba,
Habana, beg to report that the information now in their possession is
not sufficient for them to pass upon their right to claim to be one of
the regular Grand Lodges of the world, in view of the claims of other
bodies for recognition. We would ask that this be referred to the
Standing Committee on Foreign Correspondence, to examine with
care into the standing of said Grand Body, and report at next Grand
Lodge, and if found entitled to recognition, the Grand Lodge can then
accord them fraternal recognition.”
The last occasion in which reference to this subject by
Grand Lodge is found is in the Proceedings of 1894, in
the address of Grand Master John W. Cotten, and its refer-
ence to a special committee, which in 1895 submitted this
report, which on motion was laid on the table :
“Your Committee appointed to report on the fraternal relations
with the Grand Lodge of Cuba, beg leave to report that we can gain
no information to justify us in making any report, and recommend
that no action be taken with the present light before us.”
It is apparent that the Grand Lodge will not be content
with the presentation of a mere formula or a vague recom-
mendation, and therefore in obedience to its command your
APPENDIX.
3
Committee begs leave to present this report, which, in the
absence of exact information, reaches only to the formation
of the Grand Lodge of Cuba, in August, 1876.
Before entering upon the brief recital of facts, your
Committee desires to make grateful acknowledgment to
Most Worshipful Bro. Joseph Robbins, of Illinois, for kind-
ly indicating the source from which information could be
obtained — the Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Illinois,
1877, and now in Grand Lodge Library.
In that year Bro. T. T. Gurley, from the Correspond-
ence Committee, presented an exhaustive and wonderfully
clear report on the condition of Masonry prevailing on the
Island of Cuba, and it is from this and the voluminous doc-
uments presented by the two contending Grand Lodges
that the following information is obtained :
On Dec. 5, 1859, there were in Santiago three lodges
chartered by the Grand Lodge of South Carolina, and
on that date these three lodges formed the Grand Lodge
of Colon, located at Santiago, sovereign in authority over
Symbolic Masonry on the Island of Cuba.
On Dec. 27, 1859, the Supreme Council of the A. A.
Rite for Cuba and the West India Islands was instituted by
authority of the Supreme Council 33 0 for the Southern
Jurisdiction of the United States, but was limited to con-
ferring degrees and orders from the 4th to the 33rd, inclu-
sive, and by the terms of its creation, without any author-
ity over the first three degrees.
But on this day (27th December, 1859,) of the formation
of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, the Grand Lodge
of Colon, having supreme authority over Symbolic Masonry
in Cuba and the West Indies, submitted that authority to
the Supreme Council when it entered into a compact with
the latter Body for the creation of a Grand Orient, the
Grand Lodge of Colon being one member of the partner-
ship, and the Supreme Council the other. In this new rela-
tion the Supreme Council acquired by consent of the Grand
Lodge of Colon a power it did not originally have— the con-
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trol of all the degrees from the ist to the 33rd — and the
Grand Lodge thereby surrendered any just claim to be a
governing body of Craft Masonry.
In evidence of the complete and voluntary surrender of
the Grand Lodge, it is nowhere denied that the Supreme
Council held and exercised control in legislation, in the ex-
ecutive department, and even used the money of the lodges
without in any way accounting for its disbursement. More
than this, any Master of a Subordinate Lodge was required
to vacate his seat in the East on the approach of some of
the higher Supreme Council Officers, who paid no dues to
the lodge and who were in no wise amendable to its penal
enactments.
This state of affairs continued for nearly nine years, or
until September, 1868. At this time the officers of the
Grand Lodge of Colon and its subordinates, chafing under
the continued encroachments, exactions and humiliations
imposed by the Supreme Council, determined to withdraw
from the Grand Orient copartnership and resume the sur-
rendered function of governing Symbolic Masonry. The
Supreme Council objected to this withdrawal from the com-
pact of 1859, but agreed to refer the matters in controversy
to the Grand Council of the Grand Orient, provided the
Grand Lodge of Colon, pending this reference, would give
its assent to the anullment of its Constitution by the Su-
preme Council, which was in these words :
"First. That the constitution and by-laws of the Grand Lodge of
Colon be declared null and void until the conversion and sanction of
the new rules to be dictated by the bodies assembled in Grand
Orient.”
The Grand Lodge of Colon, accepting this decree,
issued a circular to its subordinates, declaring that “the
general constitution and by-laws promulgated by the Grand
Lodge are declared null and void,” and the constituent
lodges directed to “send any printed copies thereof they
may have in their possession to the sublime Grand Body.”
And this action was unanimously approved.
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Owing to political upheavals, war and widespread per-
secution of Masons by the Spanish government, the pro-
posed arbitration meeting of the Grand Orient did not take
place. For eight years following there was much confusion
in Masonry and it was looked upon as a political society, or
at any rate as being largely dominated by politicians. It
was at this time, or in August, 1876, that nine lodges of the
obedience of the Grand Lodge of Colon, and four lodges
under dispensation from the Supreme Council of the Scot-
tish Rite, united to form the Grand Lodge of Cuba. In the
nine lodges were included the three chartered by the Grand
Lodge of South Carolina seventeen years before.
Then began a period of crimination and recrimination
and much bitterness between the old Grand Lodge of Colon,
at Santiago, and the newly formed Grand Lodge of Cuba, at
Havana, in their rival claims for recognition before the
Masonic world. The voluminous publications issued in
support of the respective contentions seem to warrant these
conclusions :
First. That the Symbolic Grand Lodge of Colon sur-
rendered its authority when, twenty-two days after its organ-
ization, it entered into a compact with the Supreme Council
acknowledging the supremacy of the latter over all the de-
grees, from the 1st to the 33rd, and therefore ceased to
exist.
Second. That in 1868, when it issued a circular to its
subordinates, agreeing to the abolition of its Constitution
and By-laws, and directing obedience, under penalty, to the
Constitution and Laws of the Supreme Council, the Grand
Lodge of Colon and the lodges of its obedience became
at once extinct. The status is thus forcibly presented by
Brother Gurley:
“If the unfortunate submission was not sufficient to blast the
Grand Lodge of Colon and constituent lodges, and blot them from the
record of bodies of Symbolic Masonry, the suicide was consummated
on the 4th of September, 1868, by assenting to a decree of the Supreme
Council abolishing the Grand Lodge.”
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Third. That the organization of the Grand Lodge of !
Cuba, which now asks recognition, was accomplished by
thirteen lodges, which, to use the language of Brother Gur-
ley, were not only irregular but unlawful. The claim was
made that as the three lodges chartered by the Grand Lodge
of South Carolina were of the number forming the Grand
Lodge of Cuba, no question could be raised as to their legit-
imacy, and that they themselves could form the Grand
Lodge and heal the other ten lodges; but when this off-
spring of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina lost its power
over Symbolic Masonry voluntarily and abolished its Consti-
tution, it was as dead as if the Charters had been revoked,
and could do no lawful Masonic act, or as Brother Gurley
puts it :
“If, instead of being expelled by the Grand Lodge of South Caro-
lina, whose jurisdiction ceased with the formation of the Grand Lodge
of Colon in 1859, these lodges had accomplished their own dissolution,
was their annihilation the less positive? It seems to us an unwarrant- ||
ed assumption to insist that, after years of voluntary renunciation and
surrender of original charters, these three lodges can now, of their
own election, resume their original relations with the Craft.”
This is the story of the genesis of the Grand Lodge of
Cuba in August, 1876; but it is proper to say that your Com-
mittee believes that nearly all the American Grand Lodges
and many foreign jurisdictions have extended fraternal and
cordial recognition to the Grand Lodge of Cuba, as exercis-
ing lawful and undisputed authority over Symbolic Masonry
on the Island of Cuba.
On the other hand, it should be stated that the Grand
Lodge of North Carolina has heretofore declined to recog-
nize the Grand Lodge of Cuba as a legitimate Masonic Body.
Your Committee is not advised as to the reasons which have
prompted Grand Lodge to assume and maintain this attitude
of reserve toward the Grand Lodge of Cuba, but we feel
assured that her conservatism in all things and her sed-
ulous regard for the faithful observance of the landmarks
of Masonry were controlling influences which prevented her
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from following the example of sister Grand Lodges who
were seemingly more generous and less exacting.
In the absence of information which would lead to a
different conclusion, your Committee respectfully recom-
mends the adoption of this resolution:
That the Grand Lodge of North Carolina is at present
constrained to deny fraternal recognition to the Grand
Lodge of Cuba.
Fraternally,
Jno. A. Collins,
for the Committee.
ALABAMA — 1900,
8th Annual. Montgomery. December 4.
GRAND Master B. Dudley Williams, in the exordium of
his address, is inspired with a fervid rhetoric that his
successors may patiently study if thej^hope to approach him
in eloquence. He says in part:
“ This old earth of ours, hurrying on to destiny and dissolution,
has completed another tour around the sun, and we find ourselves once
more gathered about our sacred altar, in this Mecca of Alabama Masons,
in Annual Grand Communication. From every hill and dale, plain and
valley, hamlet and city of this great Commonwealth, we come. From
the crystal currents of the Tennessee to the turgid bosom of Mobile
Bay; from the bounding billows and deep eddies of the Chattahoochee
to the gushing fountains of the historic Tombigbee; from the sylvan
bowers of the Appalachian foothills, the vineclad knolls that dot the
valleys of the rippling Tallapoosa and Coosa — the “ Grand: ” from the
rich prairies of the Black Belt, from the whispering pine and scented
magnolia forests of the south; a royal brotherhood, evangels of Faith,
FI ope and Charity; the champions of Friendship, Morality and Brotherly
Love; the dauntless legions of light, with banners inscribed with legends
of Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence and Justice, we come, we come! ”
The Grand Master reported sixty decisions, which were
referred to the Jurisprudence Committee, and that Commit-
tee asked until next year to report.
APPENDIX.
No. 14 makes borrowing money from a lodge and re-
fusing or neglecting to pay it back a Masonic offense, pun-
ishable by expulsion. If a lodge has money to lend to its
members or others it ought to use ordinary business methods,
and should not complain if by its own carelessness it “gets
left.”
No. 18 rules that “in the absence of the Master and
both Wardens a lodge cannot be opened by any person ex-
cept the Grand Master or his deputy.” This doctrine seems
to be confined to Alabama, and it may be that, when the
matter is brought before Grand Lodge, the ruling may be
reversed and probably will be.
No. 58, of a kind with one that we adverted to last year,
is that a suspended member’s dues continue to grow during
the period of suspension. So far as lodge privileges are
concerned the suspended man is out in the cold, but he must
contribute to the cost of maintenance just the same.
Dispensations for the formation of nine new lodges were
granted.
The Grand Master is very earnest in his advocacy of a
Masonic Home, but the Grand Lodge declined to be commit-
ted to an enterprise requiring the outlay of so much money
immediately and in the future.
The number of lodges is 386, and the membership
12, 1 10.
The Report on Correspondence — 185 pages — is the work
of Bro. William Y. Titcomb and is a review of the transac-
tions of fifty Grand Lodges, North Carolina for 1900 being
of the number. Taking it all in all, Brother Titcomb’s report
is a very good one
R. M. Cunningham, M. IV. Grand Master.
Geo. A. Beauchamp, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
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ARIZONA— 1900.
19TH Annual. Phoenix. November 13, 14, 15.
A LIKENESS of William F. Nichols, the Grand Master,
forms the frontispiece of the volume under review.
In his address the Grand Master reports the condition
of the Craft to be satisfactory in growth and in financial
status.
Very much of the address is devoted to the correspond-
ence growing out of the unintentional invasion of territory
by a Arizona neighboring lodge in Sonora, Mexico. Igno-
rance on both sides of the line led to the mistake, but perhaps
the warm fraternal feeling subsisting between the neighbor-
ing Mexican and Arizona lodges had more to do with the inci-
dent than anything else. The Mexican brethren did work in
an Arizona lodge and took Arizona material, but only after
full consent had been obtained.
The Grand Master ruled against making a Mason of a
man who had lost the first two fingers of the right hand,
and in endorsement of the Grand Master the Committee on
Jurisprudence says:
“ That in the case of the person applying for the degrees of Masonry
who is afflicted with the loss of the first two fingers of his right hand,
we find no reason for reversing the decision of the Grand Master, and
the decisions of the Grand Lodge from time to time. The appeal in
this case to the Grand Master, while very plausible, fails to touch upon
one of the most important points in our laws — that of the applicant
being able to conform literally to the requirements of our work. We
therefore recommend that the decision of the Grand Master be sus-
tained. ”
In all his official acts the Grand Master received the
hearty approval of the Grand Lodge. His recommenda-
tion of the recognition of the Grand Lodge of Western Aus-
tralia was adopted and fraternal relations established.
The annual oration was delivered by Bro. Charles D.
Belden on “The Ultimate of Freemasonry”— the millen-
nium, of which is said :
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“The world is preparing daj' by day for the millennium; but you
do not see it. Every season forms itself a year in advance. The com-
ing Summer lays out her work during the Autumn, and buds and roots
are forespoken. Ten million roots are pumping in the fields; do you
hear them? Ten million buds are forming in the axils of the leaves;
do you hear the sound of any axe or hammer? All next Summer is at
work in the world; but it is unseen by us. And so, ‘the Kingdom of
God cometh not with observation.’
“It is Winter now; the earth is frost-bound and encrusted with ice
and snow. But soon the sun will come wheeling from the tropics; and
the voice of Spring will call, and the violets and the daisies will hear
it, as well as the tall pines of Oregon; and everywhere there shall be
life and growth and beauty. So it is with man. His Winter has been
long and dark; but the sun of God’s love will shine and the' crusts of
tyranny and the frosts of oppression shall melt away beneath its rays;
and the humblest as well as the loftiest creature will yet stand in the
light and liberty of the sons of God.”
The salary of the Grand Secretary has been increased
from $200 to $400.
Very gratifying is the report of the Committee on
Grievances, which says, “that nothing has come before it
for consideration.”
There are fifteen chartered lodges and two under dis-
pensation, with a total membership of 828, a gain of 88.
No Report on Correspondence.
George Montague, M. IV. Grand Master.
George J. Roskruge, R. W. Grand Secretary.
ARKANSAS— 1900.
6oth Annual. Little Rock. November 20, 21.
PORTRAITS of Grand Masters Robt. M. Smith and Harry
H. Myers, and of the Grand Secretary, Fay Hempstead,
adorn the volume.
An Emergent Communication of Grand Lodge was held
on October 7th, the purpose of which is thus stated in the
minutes :
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“ The Most Worshipful Grand Master stated in fitting and appro-
priate terms the sorrow of the Craft at the decease of our beloved Grand
Master, Robert M. Smith, who had perished in the' disaster at Galves-
ton, Tex., on the night of September 8, and that this emergent com-
munication had been called to assemble in the city of his residence and
in the hall of his mother Lodge for the purpose of holding a memorial
service in his honor.”
At this service many loving eulogies on the life of the
deceased Grand Master were delivered by the brethren who
knew him best and who could testify from personal knowl-
edge of his excellence as a citizen and Mason.
In the opening of his address, Grand Master Myers
thus refers to the circumstances which placed him in the
Grand East :
“ In assuming the gavel of this exalted office today, I assure you it
is with inexpressible sorrow, for with you I mourn the loss of him whose
hope it was to have presided over your deliberations today , our late Grand
Master, Robert Maxwell Smith, who, together with his wife and four
children, was lost in that terrible death-dealing and devastating storm
that swept over Galveston, Texas, on that fatal September 8. Brother
Smith had gone there with his family but a few days prior to that dis-
aster, for a few days of well-deserved recreation, and when the news
was flashed over the wires telling of the fearful catastrophe, creating
consternation and horror over our land, wTe, his friends and brothers
who knew of his presence there, held our bated breaths and hoped
against hope that he had been spared, but alas vain hope, and after wait-
ing and exhausting every available means to know the truth, wTe were
forced to the inevitable conclusion that be was lost, and as your Deputy
Grand Master the duties of the Grand Master devolved on me, and it
was with the sense of a personal loss and a heavy heart, that I under-
took the unfinished work of my friend, your Grand Master.”
It is gratifying to state that the Masons of Arkansas,
like the members of the Craft all over the United States,
were prompt to answer the cry of distress which went up
from Galveston, and contributed about $2,000 to those who
so sorely needed it.
The condition of the Craft is reported to be growing in
strength and usefulness every year, and to be free from con-
tentions.
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The decisions of the Grand Master, few in number and
referring only to local laws, met the approval of Grand
Lodge.
The report of the Grand Secretary, Bro. Fay Hemp-
stead, shows the affairs of Grand Lodge to be improving
in every way.
From the report of the Board of Control of the Temple
we take this extract, showing a more hopeful outlook for the
future of that property:
“ It will be seen that the total revenue is a little in excess of the
present outlay, provided, all the building remains occupied as at pres-
ent; and from this time forward, with the assistance given us by the
action of the Grand Lodge at its last session, and which has enabled us
to save the building, we can soon discharge the balance of the floating
debt and the bonded debt can be further reduced.”
Bro. V/. R. Chestnut, the Grand Orator, delivered a
valuable address on the practice of the virtues inculcated in
Masonry.
A resolution to reduce the degree fees to $15 was reported
adversely by the Committee on Masonic Law and Usage and
failed of passage.
The Committee on Correspondence reported favorably
on the recognition of the Grand Lodge of Porto Rico, and
the report was adopted; but its recommendation for the re-
establishment of fraternal relations with the Grand Lodge
of AVashington was ordered to lie over until the next meeting
of Grand Lodge.
The Grand Lodge of AVestern Australia received frater-
nal recognition.
A lodge having buried, with Masonic ceremonies, a
brother who was suspended for non-payment of dues, the
Committee on Law administers this rebuke:
“ From the statement of this case and the law as above quoted it
was clearly unlawful for Bayou Dota Lodge to bury the said brother.
And it was also wrong for the Lodge to restore him to good standing
after his death.
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13
“ We can understand how the sympathy of Masons can be stir-
red in behalf of a deceased brother’s reputation and record, but a lodge
is not justifiable in such cases in over-riding the plain provisions of law
as laid down in our book of laws.”
On the recommendation of the Committee on Masonic
Law and LTsage, Grand Lodg'e adopted very stringent regu-
lations against liquor dealers. If any such are carried on
the rolls of lodges, they must be dropped unless they go out
of the business.
No Report on Correspondence.
There are 445 lodges, and the membership is 11,386.
Harry H. Myers, M. IV. Grand Master.
Fay Hempstead, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
BRITISH COLUMBIA— 1901.
30TH Annual. Nelson. ' June 20.
THE Grand Master, Bro. Harry H. Watson, dispensing
with oratorical display, thus begins the report of his
administration of affairs :
“Asa result of a full year’s experience as Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of British Columbia, during which time I have visited
all but four lodges, traveled nearly four thousand miles in discharging
the duties of the office, written several hundreds of letters, and devot-
ed a liberal part of my time to the advancement of Freemasonry in the
Jurisdiction, I am in a position to place our affairs before you as nearly
as possible as they exist, which I will proceed to do, in this report, as
briefly as possible.”
Appropriate action was taken by the Grand Master on
the announcement of the death of the Queen, and apprecia-
tive acknowledgment made by the King through the Grand
Secretary, E. Letchworth.
The Grand Master made six rulings, which were ap-
proved, except No. 2. It seems from this that a visiting
brother may vote upon any matter before the lodge. In
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North Carolina only members of the lodge have the privi-
lege of the ballot.
This is the ruling:
“(2.) From H. L. Salmon, D. D. G. Master, District No. 1: Ask-.
ing me to express an opinion as to the Masonic propriety of the action
of the acting VV. Master of Victoria Columbia Lodge, No. 1, in declar-
ing ballot on two candidates null and void, after one had been declared
elected and the other rejected, and ordering the ballot to be spread at
a subsequent meeting because a brother, not a member, by mistake,
voted on both applications.
“Answer. — If the brother who voted through misapprehension
will announce in open Lodge or write to the Lodge stating that he bal'
lotted in the negative, a fresh ballot can be taken after applying to the
Grand Master for a dispensation, otherwise no reconsideration can be
permitted.”
The Committee on Address of Grand Master and Dep-
uty Grand Master dissented :
“Ruling No. 2. In the case of the brother who was elected, we
are of the opinion that no further ballot was necessary. In the case
of the brother who was rejected, we question the advisability of ask-
ing any brother, whether a member or visitor, to declare the nature of
his ballot. It is our opinion that in this case a dispensation for a new
ballot should have been asked for and given without requiring any
brother to declare the nature of his vote.”
Four lodges were constituted and dispensation granted
for the formation of a new lodge, but two petitions for like
purpose were denied because in the opinion of the Grand
Master the prospects for their growth and continuance were
not good.
An inspection of the report of his visitations shows
that the Grand Master was not on a junketing trip, but for
the purpose of finding out the actual condition and work-
ings of the particular lodges, and this he did in a thorough-
ly practical way. Visits of this kind are calculated to in-
fuse life and enthusiasm into the membership as well as
into the lodge officers.
Beside the reports of visits by the Grand Master and
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Deputy Grand Master, there are also reports from the Dis-
trict Deputies of their visits and findings, and it would
seem that the Craft of British Columbia is looked after in
careful fashion. But this view is not accepted by the Com-
mittee on Reports of the District Deputy Grand Masters,
which “goes” for some of these officials in this wise:
“We regret to have to say that the conduct of the D. D. G. Mas-
ters of District Nos. 3 and 5 in not sending in their reports is most
reprehensible, for even were they not able to attend very fully to their
duties as D. D. G. Masters, they should at least have had the courtesy
to so report to this M. W. Grand Lodge
“As to District No. 3, we notice that the M. W. the Grand Master,
in his address, finds that the Lodge to which R. W. Bro. Norris be-
longs is in anything but a satisfactory condition, and he severely cen-
sured them upon the occasion of his visit to Vernon, therefore Brother
Norris should, if he had any proper conception of the responsibilities
of his office, have been the more assiduous and painstaking in looking
after the work in his district.”
The Correspondence Committee, through its chairman,
Bro. W. A. DeWolf Smith, presented a special report touch-
ing the requests for recognition of the Grand Lodges of
Western Australia, Costa Rica, the Grand Orient of Egypt
and the spurious body calling itself the Grand Lodge of
Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio. Recognition
was extended to the two former Grand Lodges and denied
to the latter.
There are 35 lodges, with a total membership of 1,978.
The Report on Correspondence, covering 190 pages,
or nearly two-thirds of the volume, is the work of Bro.
W. A. DeWolf Smith and is of the high order maintained in
his previous efforts in this department. Brother DeWolf
Smith has brought distinction to his Grand Lodge and to
himself by these excellent reports. The transactions of sixty*
two Grand Lodges are reviewed in a most satisfactory man-
ner, and North Carolina for 1901 receives fraternal notice.
These decisions of Grand Master Royster,
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“6. A party 61 years of age, receiving pensions from the United
States Government, not physically deformed, has sufficient means of
support and is otherwise qualified, is eligible to membership.”
“ 19. When candidates for advancement are to be examined, the
Lodge should be opened in the third degree. Then labor is dispensed
with and the candidate admitted and examined as to his proficiency.
The Master alone passes upon the proficiency of candidates. No vote
is necessary.”
receive this criticism :
“ The construction of No. 6 is somewhat involved, and we are left
in doubt as to the eligibility of a candidate 61 years of age who did not
receive pensions from the United States Government, or of a candi-
date who received a pension but was not 61 years of age. No. 19 shows
a practice differing from that obtaining here. In British Columbia the
candidate is examined in a Lodge opened on the highest degree to
which he has attained. We do not just see how an examination con-
ducted while the Lodge was at refreshment could be called ‘ examina-
tion in open Lodge.’ ”
As to No. 6, it seems to us to be perfectly clear and not
at all involved. It refers only to the individual petitioner,
and to no one else; and it relates only to his present condi-
tion of age, physical and mental health, and ability to earn
a livelihood. These are all positive statements, without con-
tingency or negation.
In regard to No. 19, we are in accord with our brother,
since our practice is, like that of British Columbia, to open
on the degree to which the candidate has attained and there
conduct the examination — but the Grand Master or the
printer or the typewriter failed to insert after “labor is dis-
pensed with” the important words “and a lodge opened in
the degree and the candidate introduced,” etc. We
are very close kin as to examinations on proficiency, and
the way of conducting them.
F. McB. Young, M. W. Grand Master.
W. J. Quinlan, V. W. Grand Secretary.
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CALIFORNIA— I9C0.
5 ist Annual. San Francisco. October g.
THIS volume of over six hundred pages is a storehouse
of Masonic information, of value and interest to all
Masons, but in an especial manner to the Craft of California.
Beside the regular departments found in the annual trans-
actions of all Grand Lodges, California always publishes the
roster of its constituent lodges and their membership, and
this latter information must on occasion be of great service
to the officers of the particular lodges.
The Grand Master, Charles L. Patton, in an address of
seventeen pages, recites fully everything of importance in
his administration. He gives this synopsis of the progress
of Masonry in the jurisdiction for fifty years:
“ Today, we have the privilege of contemplating the completed
work of fifty years, marked hv the untiring efforts of those who have
labored unselfishly in the field of Masonry for our benefit. They have
ever been sowing seeds of prosperity and brotherly kindness, and we,
today, reap the full benefit of their labors. This half century has in-
deed been one of profit and benefit to the Craft and mankind in general ;
today we may feel proud of our Fraternity and of our Grand Lodge.
The year just closing has been one where peace and harmony prevailed
and where success has crowned the efforts made by the brethren to place
the banners of Masonry still further onward in the line of progress;
but although the year passed rapidly and left in some directions but
little impress upon our minds, yet the time has been crowded with
events proper to be reported to you.”
The long list of the Masonic dead is sorrowfully referred
to ; and the prompt response of Grand Lodge to the cry of
distress from Galveston by the contribution of $1,000 is
briefly and modestly related.
The State of the Order is thus reported:
“ It is gratifying to me to be able to report that Masonry is pros-
pering throughout the entire State — that the past year has been one
marked by gains in membership as well as by progress along lines
which lead to a better fraternal feeling among the Lodges and members.
The net gain for the year has been over 1,100, which is a larger one than
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ever before. I believe this great gain to be due to the increased inter-
est shown by the members and officers of the Lodges in the work of
Masonry. The revision of our ritual has helped in the accomplishment
of the result, and more than all, I am satisfied that the establishment
and successful operation of our Masonic Home has contributed to make
this year such a distinct success.”
The Grand Master commends the good work of the sev-
eral Boards of Relief and advises Grand Lodge to give them
liberal appropriations. On the recommendation of the
Finance Committee Grand Lodge gave the Board of San
Francisco $3,800, and to the Board of Los Angeles $2,400.
The Boards of Relief at Stockton, San Diego, and Oakland,
having on hand sufficient balances, received no additional
allowances.
These Boards disbursed in relief for the needy of their
own and foreign jurisdictions during the year the sum of
nearly $17,000.
Among the beneficiaries of the Los Angeles Board was
a brother hailing from North Carolina, who was assisted to
the amount of $16.60, and there is no evidence of repayment.
The Masonic Home is the pride of the Fraternity and,
judging from the colored print which makes the frontispiece,
it is indeed a beautiful home, beautifully located, and doing
successfully the good work for which it was intended. From
the reports of the Board of Trustees and the Superintendent
we find that there are sheltered in this institution thirty-one
aged men, fourteen old women, widows of Masons, ten boys
and seven girls, and all these are cared for at an average
cost of $13.80 per month.
Four lodges were constituted and two organized under
dispensation.
Twenty-seven decisions are reported by the Grand
Master, and of these the Jurisprudence Committee says:
“ We find throughout his rulings internal evidence of logical analy-
sis and judicial impartiality in the rendering of his decisions.”
The number of lodges is 269, with a membership of
21,579, a net gain of two lodges and 1,137 members.
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The Report on Correspondence is the handiwork of Past
Grand Master William A. Davies, and in saying that it is
good work, true work and square work, we are but reflecting
the opinions expressed by the masters in the Reporters’
Guild. North Carolina for 1900 received fraternal review.
There are very many of Brother Davies’ thoughts and
opinions we would like to transfer to our pages, if space per-
mitted. His summing up of the status of the Grand Lodge
of Washington is well entitled to space:
“The sentiment developed by the action of the Grand Lodge of
Washington upon the subject of Negro Masonry is, so far as heard
from, about as follows: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania
have suspended fraternal intercourse.
“The following Grand Lodges earnestly appealed to the Grand
Lodge of Washington to reconsider its action: Arizona, California,
Georgia, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebras-
ka, New Hampshire, New York, and Oklahoma.
“The following Grand Masters have earnestly disapproved, but
Grand Lodge has taken no action: Connecticut, District of Columbia,
Oregon, and British Columbia.
“ The following have taken no action: Canada, Colorado, Illinois,
Missouri, Montana, New Brunswick, New Mexico, North Dakota, and
Nova Scotia.
“ No Grand Lodge has endorsed the action of the Grand Lodge of
Washington.”
Jas. A. Foshay, M. W. Grand Master.
George Johnson, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
CANADA— 1901.
46th Annual. Hamilton. June ii.
THE address of Grand Master Richard B. Hungerford is
as brief as he could make it.
The death of Queen Victoria is noted and a tribute paid
to her private life and the wisdom which marked her man-
agement of affairs of state.
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APPENDIX.
Pleasure is expressed by the Grand Master that King
Edward has intimated his intention of becoming the patron
of Freemasonry in England, and that his brother, the Duke
of Connaught, is to be his successor in the Grand East.
The fraternal dead at home and abroad are tenderly re-
ferred to.
■
In reference to his visits, of which there was quite a j
number, the Grand Master pursued a course that should
commend itself to other officers and is thus told:
“ On these visits it was my custom, before partaking of the hospi-
tality of the Banqueting Room, to give a short practical address to the
Brethren, directing their attention to matters which seem to me should [
be more generally observed. The most important points brought out j
were the qualifications, both mental and physical, of candidates for our
ceremonies. The Committee on Character should in every case see the |
candidate and satisfy themselves, from personal knowledge, respecting
his character, his qualifications, and his right to apply to that particu-
lar Lodge. Those on the Committee should satisfy themselves that the
funds required for admission into the Lodge are not required for the
maintenance of the applicant’s family. I also endeavored to impress |
upon the Brethren that the fact of there being a large number of initia-
tions was no evidence of strength. Quality, not quantity, is what j
Masonry needs today. If a candidate is not likely to be an ornament |
to the Fraternity, it is better without him.”
The Grand Lodge of Canada twenty-eight years ago
granted dispensation to some floating Masons to form a
lodge in Jerusalem, Palestine, and now the Grand Lodge
wishes it had not been done. The Grand Master after giv-
ing its history says:
“ From that time to the present, beyond the fact that we have one
of our chartered Lodges in that far-distant country, we have known
very little of its workings or methods of conducting the usual business
of the Lodge, and have no practical supervision over its affairs; and it
is not unreasonable to suppose, in view of this fact, that a careless,
slipshod and unconstitutional method of conducting everything in con-
nection with the Lodge has been the result. I have been placed in pos-
session of facts, the most reliable, which convince me that only one
course is advisable, as far as this Grand Lodge is concerned, and that
is an immediate withdrawal of the charter. By my instructions, the
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Grand Secretary wrote the Worshipful Master of the Lodge, ordering
him to forward at once the minute books. It was expected that these
would be here before this, but so far the Grand Secretary has not re-
ceived them.”
Brother Hungerford says that since the formation of the
Masonic Relief Association of the United States and Canada
in 1885, 2,900 Masonic impostors have been detected. His
prompt transmission of $500 for the relief of the Galveston
disaster sufferers met the cordial approval of Grand Lodge.
The Committee on Correspondence reported favorably
on the recognition of the Grand Lodges of Western Australia
and Porto Rico and asked for further time to consider the
application of the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica. The report
was adopted.
There are reported about seventy special dispensations
and forty or more are for such purposes as attending church,
holding a ball or assembly or an “ at home.” It is assumed
that those who attend and enjoy these functions pay for the
fun, and that the proceeds go to the Benevolent Fund. At
any rate, the drafts upon this fund for the year amounted to
the sum of $11,800, and hundreds of deserving people were
helped, the beneficiaries being mostly widows.
That the Craft of Canada is prosperous is not surprising
when it is found that 225 pages of this volume, or about one-
half of it, are devoted to the reports of the District Deputy
Grand Masters.
The number of lodges is 362, and the total membership
26,939, a net gain 744 f°r ^e year.
The Report on Correspondence, like that of last year, is
furnished by Past Grand Master Henry Robinson and is a
review of the transactions of sixty-four Grand Lodges, North
Carolina for 1901 included.
Richard B. Hungerford, M. W. Grand Master.
J. J. Mason, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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APPENDIX.
COLORADO— 1900.
40TH Annual. Denver. September 18.
PORTRAITS of Grand Masters Geo. W. Roe, Ernest Le
Neve Foster, A. J. Van Deren and Jos. W. Milsom
(the Representative of North Carolina,) and of the Grand Sec-
retary, Edward C. Parmelee, adorn the volume of Proceed-
ings under review.
Grand Master Alphonse A. Burnand in his address gives
an accounting of his official doings. He reports the Craft
to be in a prosperous condition, but its numerical growth
not so great as was expected. He visited 58 lodges and has
this to say of these visitations:
“ In the matter of visitations I exerted my energy first in the di-
rection of those Lodges that had not been favored with a Grand Mas-
ter’s visit in many years, and secondly to as many others as possible.
Naturally I regret the impossibility of visiting all, though I do not
regard it as necessary that all Lodges should be visited each year. If
future Grand Masters will adopt a plan similar to mine, it will be easy
to reach every Lodge once in three years. This would at least be an
improvement on the custom of visiting the most convenient every year,
and hearing from the smaller, or more distant, that they have not been
favored within the memory of the oldest member. For the informa-
tion of my successors, I append a list of my visitations, which might
otherwise, on account of its length, have been omitted. In making
these visitations I covered 8,145 miles by rail, and 424 by stage. With
due regard for the size of our proceedings, I have tabulated the list of
visitations.”
His travels of over twelve hundred miles enabled the
Grand Master to see that there were evils that needed to be
corrected, notably that of intemperance, and he has the j
courage to make this last exhortation:
“ In my travels through the State there has been forced upon me,
from many public sources, evidences of corrupt practices, false teach-
ings and insincere professions, all based upon selfishness, love of power
and personal aggrandizement. I cannot close the only address as
Grand Master that it will ever be my privilege to give, without these
few words, urging my brethren to stand for that which is right. Pop-
ularity is nothiug. It has many snares, few desirable benefits. It j
comes as the wind, and it goes with equal fickleness.”
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The Grand Master is not in favor of the formation of
Army Lodges and in this respect is sustained by the Juris-
prudence Committee, and Grand Lodge.
Brother Burnand referred feelingly to the Galveston
disaster; and that part of the address was referred to a Spe-
cial Committee which recommended that the incoming
Grand Master be empowered to draw his warrant for such
sum as he deemed proper, after correspondence with the
Grand Master of Texas. This recommendation was unani-
mously adopted.
Colorado having taken the initiative in the Centennial
Memorial services at Mount Vernon, the Craft of that State
is naturally gratified at the imposing ceremonies which
marked the occasion and made it the most memorable gath-
ering of Masons the world had ever seen.
Of this Brother Burnand says in part :
“As a prelude to the ceremonies, the Grand Lodge of Virginia met
in regular Communication, in the City of Alexandria, on the evening
of December 13, 1899. To this every Grand Master and Grand Repre-
sentative, from home or foreign shore, was invited. This was a re-
markable gathering. It was an assemblage of men, who for love of
country, intellectual ability, oratorical efforts, and devotion to the
cause of our great brotherhood, has probably not been equaled since
the day when the fifty-six immortals stood up and declared that the
Colonies were, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”
The Annual Oration by Bro. Herschel M. Hogg, de-
livered on the afternoon of the first day, contains many
beautiful thoughts and some practical admonitions. Here
is one kind of material that he thinks should be thrown in
the rubbish:
“ The self-righteous applicant, the one who prides himself that he
does no wrong, has no place in such an organization. It may be that
his character, that he assumes, is so far as known without much
blotch, he may be guilty of none of the little follies and weaknesses of
human nature, but he will be found hard and unforgiving; his place in
the wall had best be left a hole.”
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APPENDIX.
Under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Colorado,
there are 98 constituent lodges, having a total membership
of 8,392, showing a net gain of 418.
The Report on Correspondence is a review of the Pro-
ceedings of fifty- five Grand Lodges, covering 171 pages,
by Past Grand Master Lawrence N. Greenleaf. North
Carolina’s Proceedings for 1900 are of the number.
The severe enactment against the non-affiliate by the
Grand Lodge of Nevada provokes a sensible criticism from
Brother Greenleaf, part of which we quote :
“ The Fraternity on this continent is annually turning adrift
20.000 of its members for non-payment of dues, and now to this large
army it is proposed to add those who are non-a (filiated, to suspend
them from all the rights and privileges of the Fraternity. Should
other jurisdictions adopt similar legislation, the list of suspensions for
non-payment of dues and voluntary non-affiliation might approximate
50.000 annually. Are we prepared for such a condition of things;
should we not rather by renewed effort make our Lodges more attrac-
tive, our work more interesting to intelligent minds and strive to cul-
tivate more generally the social feature? Man is prone to rebel against
force and compulsion, but will usually yield to milder and more per-
suasive methods. One who is compelled to join a Lodge under the
threat of suspension, may continue to pay his dues, but cannot be
forced to attend the meetings. The Lodge secures his support, but not
his presence. The sting of the lash renmins and brotherly love burns
not with furnace heat. Ours is a Fraternity; have a care that we crush
not out its spirit with harsh measures foreign to its original intent and
purpose.”
Joseph W. Milsom, M. W. Grand Master.
Ed. C. Parmelee, R. W. Grand Secretary.
HE initial pages of the volume are given up to the por-
traits and short biographical sketches of Grand Mas-
ter-elect Geo. D. Kennedy, and Past Grand Masters James
H. Peabody and Cornelius J. Hart. There is also the like-
COLORADO— 1901.
41ST Annual.
Denver.
September 18.
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ness of President McKinley fronting a memorial page in
which his virtues as “Man, Citizen, Soldier, Statesman,
President, Mason,” are inscribed.
The address of Grand Master Jos. W. Milsom, the Rep-
resentative of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina, is a
thoughtful Masonic paper and exhibits an earnest zeal 'for
the advancement of the Craft.
The first name on the death roll is that of Edward
Carroll Parmelee, for thirty-five years the efficient, pains-
taking Grand Secretary, of whom Past Grand Master Green-
leaf, speaking for the Committee on Necrology, says:
“ It was but a brief two years ago that Grand Master De Long, in
his annual address, referred to the remarkable fact that during the
thirty-eight consecutive years of our history, not a single Grand Officer
had died during his term of office. Alas! How soon was this record
destined to be broken. Scarcely had the echo of his words lapsed into
silence, ere the guardian of our outer portal, ‘Uncle Tom,’ our faith-
ful old Tiler, received the last summons. And now as we meet together
today, our eyes wander toward the southeast corner and seek in vain
for the familiar presence of ‘ Brother Ed,’ our long-time Grand Sec-
retary. No longer will he greet us with playful remark or glance up
inquiringly at our approach. The weary hand has penned its last
record and he sleeps his last sleep.”
This flattering condition of the Craft is reported:
“ It affords me much pleasure to report that the condition of the
Craft is in every way satisfactory; the Subordinate Lodges have done
much good work and peace and harmony prevails throughout our
jurisdiction.”
“There is a deep and earnest spirit pervading the entire Frater-
nity throughout our Grand Jurisdiction that speaks well for the future
of Freemasonry in Colorado.”
Three dispensations were granted for the formation of
new lodges.
Of special dispensations, four were for permission “to
attend Divine Services,’ presumably in Masonic clothing.
Isn’t it a misnomer to call these displays attendance on
Divine Service?
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The Craft of Colorado responded most generously and
promptly to the cries of distress coming up from Galveston
and Jacksonville, giving to the former $1,409.30 and to the
latter $250.
The Special Committee appointed last year to consider
the feasibility of building up a Benevolent Fund submitted
a report which was adopted unanimously, from which we
extract this resolution showing its purpose and method :
“ That a Benevolent Fund be founded to be a trust fund to be in-
vested for the benefit of old or indigent Brothers, their widows and
orphans, and that ten per cent, of the revenue of this Grand Lodge be
annually transferred to three Trustees to invest for that purpose, the
revenue from the fund to be appropriated for charitable purposes in ac-
cordance with the By-laws controlling this fund.”
The Grand Chapter O. E. S. is anxious to aid in this
movement, and it is probable that the Grand Royal Arch
Chapter and the Grand Commandery, Knights Templar,
will each contribute annually to the fund. This initiative
of the Grand Lodge is deserving the highest commendation,
and it is to be hoped that there will be as general a follow-
ing as there was in the Washington Memorial Celebration.
Those Grand Lodges which have made provision for the
aged and indigent in Homes will naturally continue that
method, but to those Grand Jurisdictions which have yet no
organized charities this plan of Colorado should be an in-
spiration. The Benevolent Fund now is $1,501.45, and in
a very few years we feel assured that its revenues will be
sufficient to relieve the wants of many a needy brother
without transporting him from friends and home associa-
tions.
The decisions of the Grand Master were approved ex-
cept that in which he said that a dimit, when granted, should
be by a majority vote of the lodge. Grand Lodge decided
that the dimit should be issued by order of the Master. In
any case it seems to us the final order comes from the Wor-
shipful Master.
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Decision No. 12, we think, is bad law and ought to be
repealed :
“ 12. Masonic Burial: The death of a brother in a duel, in a
brawl, in a fit of intoxication, or in any other disreputable manner, de-
prives him of the right to Masonic burial.”
If a Mason, dead in a duel conducted according to the
code, or in a street fight, or in a brawl which perhaps he
could not avoid, or from intoxication, was in good standing
at the time of his death, it seems anything but Masonic to
sit in judgment on him when he can no longer speak, and
deny his dead body the doubtful honor of attending it to the
grave. Are Masons so perfect that they do not need chari-
ty or, needing it sorely, must it be denied them lest some
good soul should say “ Lo, the Masons turned out to bury a
brawler” ? So long as he is with us and of us, we will cer-
tainly not condemn him unheard and will go with him to
the brink of the grave, and there commend his spirit to a
merciful God, the Father of Charity. And in doing this we
would be acting in strict accordance with the spirit of Ma-
sonry and the teachings of the Man of Galilee.
The lodges number 98; the membership is 8,895, a net
gain of 417.
The Report on Correspondence is a review of the trans-
actions of fifty-four Grand Lodges, North Carolina for 1901
of the number, and including 150 pages or more of the vol-
ume, is the work of Bro. Lawrence N. Greenleaf, and is of
the high character that marks his labors in this department.
The North Carolina Proceedings receive very kindly review
at the hands of Brother Greenleaf.
His conclusion concludes with a poem, one stanza of
which we reproduce :
“ Say not, say not, that Masonry is waning in its power,
Supplanted by the secret swarms which multiply each hour.
It hath no rivalry with these; it seeks not, but is sought;
Relief a tenet, not an end, sole object of its thought.
Their single aims are incidents within its vast purview,
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Which sweeps the starry universe and canopy of blue,
Which traverses the lines of earth, the flaming sun its guide,
With sleepless vigil seeketh truth where’er it may abide.
It sees the Hand Omnipotent which traced the Grand Design,
And bows in adoration ere it graspeth square and line —
Live on! O Masonry, live on! ”
George D. Kennedy, M. W. Grand Master.
William D. Todd, R. W. Grand S ccretary.
CONNECTICUT— 1901.
113TH Annual. New Haven. January 16.
PORTRAITS of the retiring Grand Master, John O. Row-
land; Eli S. Quintard, Grand Master in 1865, 1866, and
the oldest living officer of that rank in the jurisdiction ; of
Past Grand Master Clark Buckingham, at the time of his
death Superintendent of the Masonic Home, and of Right
Worshipful Arthur B. Calef adorn the volume. Besides
these pictures, there is a cut of the Hall of Washington
Lodge, No. 19, at Monroe, erected in 1800, and the oldest
lodge building in the State.
The address of Grand. Master Rowland is an excellent
presentation of the work of his administration. Many visi-
tations are reported, and one of these is thus recorded :
“ One of the most important occasions which it was my pleasure to
embrace occurred on the 9th of April, when the charter of the late
Blazing Star Lodge, which for sixty-two years had rested in the archives
of the Grand Lodge, was restored, with fitting ceremony, to a goodly
number of brethren at Cornwall Bridge, and a new lodge, which arose
phoenix-like from the embers of the past, was instituted with peculiar
and striking ceremonies. The new lodge assumed the name and num-
ber of the old. The charter members of the lodge assembled at the
appointed time, together with visiting brethren from many of the
neighboring lodges and nearly the full complement of officers of the
Grand Lodge. The new lodge was instituted amid the rejoicings and
good fellowship of the entire Craft of that immediate vicinity, and the
brethren started with promises of a most satisfactory future.”
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Not a single decision was required throughout the year,
owing to the intelligent zeal of the Masters, and of this sat-
isfactory condition, the Grand Master says:
“ One of the most promising evidences of the healthy condition of
Masonry in the jurisdiction is the fact that the Craft seem to have, with-
in their several jurisdictions, elected to the position of Master, brothers
of skill, good judgment, tact and wisdom. This is indicated by the
fact that while some minor and practically unimportant questions have
come to me, not one has been raised which has called for a new ruling
or anything more than a possible restatement and application of well-
founded principles and well-settled law, so that throughout the entire
year I have not been called upon to make what may be set down as a
Masonic decision.”
The Masonic Home is justly the pride of the Fraternity,
and with a population of fifty-seven the entire annual cost
is only $6,939.44, or about $10 a month per capita. This
covers every item of expense, including' salaries, and is next
to the Oxford Orphan Asylum in economy of administration.
The Grand Master, who succeeded Brother Clark Buck-
ingham as Superintendent, has this to say of the institution :
“ From the inception of this noble charity, I have been proud to be
one of its supporters and enthusiastic well-wishers.. On every occasion
when opportunity presented, it was my pleasure to add my humble en-
deavors to promote its welfare, but never, until it became my privilege
to enter the Home as its Superintendent, did I wholly realize what this
practical application of Masonic charity really meant to the fraternity
throughout this jurisdiction. Time and space forbids my going into
the details of my varied experiences while so closely in touch -with its
every-day life. These experiences will be found in detail in the report
which it is my duty to make as Superintendent.”
On the recommendation of the Grand Secretary the
recognition heretofore granted to the Grand Orient of Bel-
gium was withdrawn because of its intimate relations with
the Grand Orient of France, which is atheistic in its teach-
ings. Beside his labors at the Grand Secretary’s desk and
the department of Correspondence, Brother Barlow found
time to do some other work, thus:
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APPENDIX.
“ In addition to my other duties I have, during the year, made
thirty-two official and friendly visits to twenty-eight of the lodges, and
I only hope they have been as profitable to them as they are sources of
pleasant memory to me.”
There are no lodges, and a total membership of 17,397.
The Report on Correspondence is a review of the Pro-
ceedings of 65 Grand Lodges — 46 American and 19 Foreign
— covering 194 pages of the volume, and North Carolina for
1900 receives a kind notice, consuming a little more than a
page. In this report Brother Barlow exhibits the ability
and discrimination which have marked his previous reviews
Fred. S. Stevens, M. IV. Grand Master.
John H. Barlow, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
DELAWARE— 1901.
95TH Annual. Wilmington. October 2, 3.
THE likeness of the Grand Master, Joseph Stuart, occu-
pies the fly-leaf of the volume, and an inspection of the
picture would indicate that the original was a man of char-
acter and calculated to be a leader of men.
The Fraternity is reported to be in a healthy condition,
with vigorous growth in all the lodges, and showing a mem-
bership of 2,364 in the 21 lodges, and a net gain of 44 since
last report.
His decisions are:
(1) I decided that a candidate, having been elected in a lodge and
being temporarily located in another jurisdiction, could not receive his
first degree in another lodge.”
(2) “ I decided that the church is a society and, as such, cannot oc-
cupy a lodge room, which has been dedicated and consecrated to Masonic
use.”
(3) “February 7th, 1901, having learned upon my visit to Union
Lodge, No. 7, that they had elected a candidate with only one eye, but
had not initiated him, I decided that he could not have the degrees con-
ferred on him.”
(4) “I answered that if Mr. B had taken up his legal residence in
Long Island, his case was covered by decision, rendered in 1883, but if
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he was only temporarily located in another jurisdiction and claimed
residence within the jurisdiction of Jackson Lodge, they could enter-
tain his petition.”
The Committee on Grand Master’s address reported ad-
versely, and we think properly, but Grand Lodge took a
different view and sustained the Grand Master in No. i.
Nos. 2, 3 and 4 were sustained by the Committee and Grand
Lodge as in accord with the laws of the jurisdiction, but it
is hard to see why a man with only one eye could not, if
otherwise qualified, be a good and useful Mason. The per-
fect youth dogma prevails in Delaware and on that account
they occasionally lose excellent material.
Only one dispensation is reported, and properly disap-
proved :
“ March 8th, 1901, I granted a dispensation to Hiram Lodge, No.
21, to permit their lod^e room to be used as a committee room, in
which to examine candidates for the ministry by the Methodist Epis-
copal Conference, which was to convene at Seaford, on March 20th,
1901.”
The Grand Master’s recommendation to renew frater-
nal relations with the Grand Lodge of Washington was dis-
approved, the Committee saying:
“Your Committtee recommends the continuance of edict of non-
intercourse with Grand Lodge of Washington, as it is not satisfied that
the Grand Lodge of Washington has absolutely and unequivocally
receded from its former position.”
The Grand Lodge adopted resolutions requiring the so-
called Past Master’s Degree to be conferred upon every
Master-elect before installation.
The Report on Correspondence is again the work of
Bro. L. H. Jackson, and is compressed within 80 pages.
Brother Jackson gives North Carolina for 1901 very kind
notice of a page, but it is put in as part of the New York
report without any line of separation. We made search and
found ourselves under the wing of our royal sister, and are
not sorry that our identity was for a while overshadowed.
George Massey Jones, M. W. Grand Master.
Benjamin F. Bartram, R. IV. Grand Secretary .
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA— 1900.
90TH Annual. Washington. December 5.
A SPECIAL Communication of Grand Lodge was held
Dec. 31, 1899, for the purpose of giving Masonic burial
to the remains of Past Grand Master Isaac La Rue Johnson,
and another on March 29, 1900, for the exemplification of the
work of the several degrees.
At the Semi-annual Communication of May 9, 1900, the
proposition made by the order of the Eastern Star for the
establishment of a “Masonic and Eastern Star Home”' was
declined, but Grand Lodge gave to the Eastern Star Chapter
an expression of sympathy in its charitable efforts.
Another Special was held on September 18th, for the
purpose of expressing sympathy for the Grand Lodge of
Texas ‘ ‘ in the appalling calamity which had befallen it in
the effects of the cyclone and tidal-wave at Galveston.”
Grand Lodge and the Masons of the District did more than
express sorrow: they sent $1,331.25 to the distressed breth-
ren in Texas.
The Grand Lodges of Western Australia and Porto
Rico were recognized as regular and independent Masonic
bodies.
Action was deferred upon the request for recognition of
the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica.
The Grand Master visited every lodge in the jurisdiction
at least one time and has only words of praise for the work
of the lodges and their efficient officers.
Physical disabilities are considered at length by the
Grand Master and in the Report of the Special Committee,
but no change was made in the local law except that one
who had become maimed after initiation or passing should
not be barred from advancement.
The absence of Grand Secretary W. R. Singleton, now
in his eighty-second year, on account of feeble health, was
cause of sincere sorrow to the Grand Master and the Grand
Lodge.
There are 25 lodges, with a membership of 5,891.
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Owing to the sickness of Brother Singleton the Report
on Correspondence, seventy-five pages, was prepared by Bro.
G. W. Baird, a member of the Committee. The Proceedings
of fifty-five Grand Lodges pass in review, North Carolina,
1900, of the number, and are briefly noticed. In his con-
clusion Brother Baird says in part :
“ The senior member of our Correspondence Committee (our ven-
erable and much loved Brother Singleton) has been able to revise and
correct the errors of the other members in this review, and to him
great credit is due. So cheerful is he in his sickness, so happy in his
methods of setting us right, that it makes us wish it would please the
Almighty to let him live forever.”
Harry Standiford, M. W. Grand Master.
Wm. A. Gatley, R. W. Acting Grand Secretary.
ENGLAND— 1901.
THE Proceedings of the Quarterly Communications of
March, June, and September, 1901, and of the Annual
Grand Festival of April 24, 1901, are before us.
Of this last assemblege of the most distinguished Free-
masons of the United Grand Lodge of England, nothing is
said of the oratory and good-fellowship which must have
prevailed, and only this modest reference to the Grand Ban-
quet:
“In the evening the officers and members of Grand Lodge, with a
great number of Brethren, partook of an excellent entertainment pro-
vided by the Grand Stewards at Freemasons’ Tavern.
“ The thanks of the Grand Lodge were unanimously passed to the
Board of Grand Stewards for their liberality, and for their attention to
the accommodation and comfort of the Brethren.”
The Duke of Connaught was, as a matter-of-course,
elected to succeed his royal brother, Edward VII, as Most
Worshipful Grand Master.
From December, 1900, to and including February, 1901,
eighty-three petitioners were relieved to the extent of $10,-
050, and grants of $4,125 made to indigent brothers and
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widows. These allowances varied in amounts from $250 to
$600.
Two distinguished brethren were put in nomination for
the important office of Grand Treasurer — Horace Brooks
Marshall and Capt. John Barlow. There was warm ballot-
ing, 2,771 votes having been cast, but Brother Marshall
captured 1,558 votes and the office.
At the June Quarterly it was reported by the Grand
Secretary, Very Worshipful Bi'other E. Letch worth, that on
March 20th last a Deputation, headed by the Duke of Con-
naught and consisting of the most eminent Masons of the
English nobility, assembled at St. James’ Palace for the pur-
pose of presenting to the King a loyal and dutiful address
on the occasion of his accession to the throne ; and that his
Majesty was graciously pleased to receive it from so repre-
sentative a body of Freemasons. This announcement was
received with applause.
During the quarter just past $16,775 was disbursed in
charity. The, sum of 500 guineas was appropriated toward
the fund for a memorial to the Queen, by a rising vote, and
the Grand Treasurer announced that he was ready to pay
the money without waiting for the approval of Grand Lodge
at the next meeting.
At the Quarterly of September the Grand Lodge, by a
rising vote, adopted resolutions of condolence to His Royal
Highness, the Grand Master, and also to the King on account
of the bereavement they had suffered by the death of their
sister, the Empress Frederick of Germany.
At this Communication it was recommended by the
Board of General Purposes that the thirty-five lodges lately
forming the District Grand Lodge of Western Australia,
having surrendered their Charters for the purpose of erect-
ing an independent Grand Lodge, be erased from the roll of
the Grand Lodge, and it was so voted.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught,
M. W. Grand Master.
Edward Letchworth, V. W. Grand Secretary.
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FLORIDA— 1901
72ND Annual. Jacksonville. January 15.
THE portrait of William A. McLean, Grand Master 1878-
1880, forms the frontispiece of the volume.
A Special Communication was held on March 21, 1900,
for the purpose of dedicating Fort Pierce Lodge, No. 87;
and another on July 4, 1900, for the purpose of laying the
corner stone of the new Masonic Temple built by Hills-
borough Lodge, No. 25, at Tampa. On this latter occasion
a very eloquent discourse was delivered by the Deputy
Grand Master, Syd. L. Carter.
After a hearty welcome to the brethren, old and new,
and a tender reference to the dead, the Grand Master, Silas
B. Wright, made an accounting of his official acts. Many
visitations were made and, as usual, were pleasant and
profitable. In this connection, the Grand Master urged the
cultivation of the social side of Masonry:
“ While careful attention should be given to the routine business
of the lodge and the proper conferring of the degrees, still it should be
remembered that this is not the only object of lodge work. The les-
sons inculcated should be taught outside of our ceremonials. The so-
cial side of the lodge meetings should not be neglected. The brother
who comes to meeting after meeting, and has no opportunity of social
conversation, soon ceases to attend at all. Man is a social being and
seeks intercourse with his fellows. A few moments spent in social
intercourse is appreciated by the new members, and is productive of
much good. L,et every member greet and talk with as many members
present as possible. See that all are acquainted and take pains to in-
troduce the new member and visiting brother. Spend a portion of
every Communication in social pleasures of some kind and a more kind-
ly feeling among the brethren is sure to follow. Encourage the study
of the history of the Order and provide short talks on current Masonic
subjects, at every convenient opportunity. Many new members will
be encouraged to attend and all will be benefited thereby. Masters
should arrange for something of this kind at every convenient oppor-
tunity.”
The Grand Master properly refused applications of
lodges to send out begging circulars for aid in building or
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rebuilding lodge rooms. When there is sufficient zeal
among the membership, that lodge must be very poor in-
deed which can not provide safe and comfortable quarters in
which to hold its meetings.
Upon the recommendation of the Grand Master the
Grand Lodge of Western Australia was duly recognized.
The request for recognition by the Grand Lodge of Costa
Rica, the Grand Orient of Belgium and the Gran Dieta of
Mexico were laid over for future consideration. The Craft
is warned against having any communication with those
owing allegiance to the so-called “Grand Lodge of Ohio,”
and the act of outlawry denounced against this clandes-
tine body in 1893 is now reaffirmed by Grand Lodge.
The edict of non-intercourse with the Grand Lodge of
Washington having been withdrawn, the Grand Master of
that jurisdiction asked for an exchange of Representatives,
which Grand Master Wright refused and he is sustained by
Grand Lodge.
The decisions of the Grand Master are numerous and
are all approved by Grand Lodge as in accord with the laws
of the jurisdiction. The liquor question has given rise to
some of these decisions, which in fact are only elaborations
of the anti-saloon enactment of the Grand Lodge. Liquor
dealers will probably soon be excluded from the Craft in
Florida. So mote it be.
The number of active lodges is 145, and the member-
ship 4,460.
There is no Report on Correspondence.
James Carnell, M. W. Grand Master.
Wilber P. Webster, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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GEORGIA— 1900.
114TH Annual. Macon. October 30.
PORTRAITS of two Past Grand Masters — James M. Mob-
ley and W. A. Davis — occupy fly-leaves in the volume,
and although they may be fairly good likenesses of the
brethren, the work of the artist might easily be very much
better.
In twenty-one pages Grand Master W. A. Davis has
made a full statement of his official doings for the year, and
the spirit of the address received this commendation from
his brethren:
“ The address was conceived in love, written in firmness, but in kind-
ness, and deserves and no doubt will give to every Georgia Mason a
higher sense of his duty to his God, his neighbor and to himself, and
especially of his bounden duty to woman. We cannot say enough in
approval and praise of the address.”
From personal observation and other sources of infor-
mation the Grand Master is able to report growth in num-
bers, a decided upwrard moral trend and marked financial
improvement.
Entire freedom from debt and . a handsome balance in
the treasury for the first time in twenty-five years prompt
the Grand Master to foreshadow the establishment of a
Home on a sure foundation.
He says in part:
“ Something must be done to show that we are not pretenders but
doers of the word. Let us plan out some noble work and bend every
energy to its accomplishment. Let us lay our plans so wisely and so
well that failure will be impossible Let us build an institution that
will prove a blessing to posterity, and which generations hence shall
gladly approve. To do this we should begin at once to accumulate a
fund. Define the object of our desire and annually appropriate a given
amount for that purpose. By this method, wTith proper management,
and under the approving providence of God, in a short while we shall
behold an institution of which Georgia Masons shall be proud, and
which an enlightened and charity-loving world will applaud.”
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Later on Grand Lodge discussed fully the ways and
means of founding and maintaining such institution and,
judging from the sentiments expressed, it will be but a
short time until Georgia, too, will have her Masonic Home.
We bid the Craft God-speed in the work, but it is by no
means certain that this is the best way of dispensing Ma-
sonic aid, especially to old men and women.
The Grand Master thinks that Grand Lodge should
meet the expense of official visitations, and puts the matter
very plainly. That part of the address went to the Juris-
prudence Committee first and later to the Finance Commit-
tee, but we can find no report.
The Grand Master says :
“ My expenses for these visitations have been somewhat more than
last year and yet unusually small Except where the Lodges have
voluntarily offered to defray my expenses I have not required them to
do so, but have charged the amount up to the Grand Lodge. Some of
the Lodges think it is their duty to defray all the expenses of a visit
from the Grand Master, while others feel they should be borne by this
Grand Lodge. There should be no doubt on this question. Let all the
Lodges feel at liberty to call the Grand Master at any time, and let the
Grand Master feel free to visit any Lodge when he so desires. Several
hundred dollars could be expended in this way that would redound
most advantageously to the good of the Order. I have acted on this
principle, but have not made as many visits as I would have made if
all the Lodges had understood that such visitations would be free to
them. It is often the case that the Lodges and the community which
most need the services of the Grand Master are the least able to bear
the expense. If there is a perfect understanding of this matter the
Grand Master W’ould be enabled to visit nearly every section of the
State, and, in my humble opinion, a few hundred dollars could not be
more wisely or profitably employed.”
The lodges number 433, and the membership is 19,332.
The Report on Correspondence, 143 pages, is furnished
by Bro. A. Morrill Lambdin, who gives North Carolina for
1900 kindly notice and liberal space.
Brother Lambdin succeeded to the position so ably
filled by our Bro. W. S. Ramsay, who has passed within the
veil. From the memorial presented by Bro. W. E. Mum-
ford we extract this pen-picture of our deceased brother:
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“ Into the same innumerable company of that country, ‘from whose
bourn no traveler returns,’ has entered the soul of our brother, Rev.
W. S. Ramsay, Past Master, and Chairman for matn' years of our Com.
mittee on Foreign Correspondence. In the month of March he went
to his reward, full of faith, a mature man, an erudite Masonic scholar-
Brother Ramsay was a gentleman, and bore about in his body the
marks of gentility. His spirit was all sunshine and he made it his
business to communicate the spirit to others, as he walked with them
along the thorny way. He was a true minister, delighting always to
speak the words of good cheer into the ear of a downcast brother.
You would not leave his presence without carrying with you his in-
fluence as a strengthening cordial to aid you in beating back the waves
of adversity. His philosophy was builded after the pattern of that in-
spired statement, ‘ All things work together for good to them that love
the good and are looking for the good.’ Brother Ramsay loved his
brethren out of a pure heart fervently, and gloried in imparting
strength and encouragement to all they undertook. Ah, well does the
writer remember, while bowing under the weight of great responsibil-
ity, divinely imparted, he felt the hearty hand grasp, and then the
strong embrace of our beloved brother, accompanied by the tender
benediction, ‘ God bless you in this noble work, my brother, and I
want you to come and talk to my people about it, and I shall do all I can
for you.’ This simple incident marks well our noble brother’s charac-
ter, and stamps upon our heart the impress of his beautiful sympathy.
Oh, brethren, what is life worth, unless it be used in ministry to each
other? The love of God shines not so brightly anywhere as it does
when it shines out of a human heart into the life of others. Our broth-
er knew Masonry, and loved her devotedly, and life was at its flood-
tide when he met with us here in this sacred hall year after year. His
work for Masonry was backed by the love of his heart, and though his
last report on Foreign Correspondence was prepared while his body
was often racked with pain, it was one of his best. He winds up this
work and and lays down his pen from his weary grasp with these
words: ‘ Brethren of the Craft, we have reviewed the proceedings of
the American and Canadian Grand Lodges, and all the Foreign Grand
Lodges that come to our table, fifty-seven in number, covering two
hundred and twenty-nine pages of manuscript. It is the result of
many a brain throb and heartache through weary weeks of labor, so as
to select for you the cream of the proceedings under review. Indul-
gent as you have ever been, I am sure that you will have the mantle
of charity for any defects you may discover, and praise for what may
be praiseworthy.’
“ In these last words, from the heart of this lovely man and Ma
son, he has give ) us a true insight into the character habit of his life.
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Let us heed his words, not only with reference to his work, but with
reference to the lives and labors of all our fellows. Away with the
black curtain of disparagement, so easy to be thrown over the bright-
est and best of earth’s labors. In the holy spirit of the immortal 'Ram-
say let us have the mantle of charity for defects, and the garment of
praise for that which is praiseworthy. Though he had troubles of his
own — tasting the bitter dregs of the undercurrents of human woe — he
never troubled others with them, but sought to lighten his own bur-
dens by helping to bear those of others. His ministries are unending
blessings in the lives of all who knew him.”
Max Meyerhardt, M. IV. Grand Master.
W. A. Wolihin, R. W. Grand S ecretary.
IDAHO — 1901.
34TH Annual. Boise. September 10, 13.
THE portrait of Grand Master David C. Chase occupies
the fly-leaf of this volume of transactions. The un-
timely death of the Grand Master, George D. Golden, on
May 17th, placed the government of the Craft in the hands
of the Deputy Grand Master, Albert W. Talkington, who,
on account of the demands of his business, was unable to
be present at this meeting.
There were two Emergent Communications of Grand
Lodge — one for the dedication of a Masonic Temple, the
ceremonies of which were conducted by Brother Golden,
and the other for his burial, on May 26th.
The address of the Deputy Grand Master was read by
the Grand Secretary, and was a very brief paper.
The Report of the Grand Secretary furnishes the miss-
ing links in the history of Grand Lodge work during vacation.
He gives this account of the death of the Grand Master:
“ Brethren of the Grand Lodge: Once more we meet in An-
nual Communication, and for the first time in the history of this Grand
Lodge we mourn the loss of our most Worshipful Grand Master, Brother
George Dickerson Golden, w'ho only one short year ago was elected to
the Grand East. Shocked, is a feeble word to express the feelings of
myself and Right Worshipful Brother Charles Himrod, Grand Treas-
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urer, who, on May 17, 1901, was in the Grand Secretary’s office on busi-
ness, when, at 9 o’clock A. M., the telegram arrived from the Worship-
ful Master of Eagle Rock Lodge, No. 19, announcing the death of our
Grand Master, only two hours previous, at Idaho Falls.
“ We immediately consulted two Past Grand Masters, and it was
decided to learn the wishes of the family in regard to the burial. The
son was at home in Rocky Bar, the wife and widow in Maine. The son
could not be reached by telegraph or telephone, and the residence of the
widow unknown. A special messenger was dispatched from Mountain-
home and, driving day and night, the son was in telephone communi-
cation with this office on the morning of May 18th, and it was ascer-
tained that the wishes of the family were that the body of our Grand
Master be interred in the Masonic cemetery at Boise, and the funeral
under the auspices of the Grand Lodge, which was duly performed on
May 26, 1901.
“ The death of our Grand Master was very sudden and unexpected.
He had just returned from a short visit east, where he went for the
benefit of his wife’s health, who remained in the east with relatives.
“ Our Grand Master, upon his return to this Jurisdiction, concluded
to make official visits to the lodges in the southeastern portion of the
State, and while discharging those duties he was suddenly called from
his labors here to the Supreme Grand Lodge above.”
The Grand Treasurer reports the Orphan Fund to be
$33»63i-°7-
The petition of the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica for rec-
ognition was, for want of exact information, laid over un-
til the next Annual Communication of Grand Lodge.
The following resolution met its death at the hands of
the Committee on Jurisprudence and, as it seems to us, was
a proper ending :
“ Resolved: That the names of the members of the committee ap-
pointed to inquire into the person and character of applications either
for the degrees of Masonry or for affiliation, shall not appear upon the
records of the Lodge, nor be announced nor be known to any person
except the Master and Secretary.
“Each member of such committee shall make a separate report,
which shall be destroyed after the ballot on the application is taken.”
The following resolution, after meeting the approval of
the Jurisprudence Committee, was adopted:
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“ Resolved : That this Grand Lodge recognize no degrees of Masonry
except those conferred under the regulations of the Grand Lodges of the
various states and territories of the United States, and the governments
throughout the world; and, whereas, it admits the following named or-
ganizations to be regular and duly constituted Masonic bodies, namely:
The General Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the United States, the Grand
Royal Arch Chapters of the several states and territories of the United
States, and the Royal Arch Chapters and other bodies under their juris-
diction; the General Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of the
several states and territories of the United States, and the Councils |
under their jurisdiction; the Grand Encampment of the United States;
the Grand Commanderies of the several states and territories of the
United States, and the Commanderies under their jurisdiction; the Su-
preme Councils of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the
Northern and Southern Jurisdictions of the United States, and the vari-
ous bodies under their jurisdiction. Now, therefore, it is hereby de-
clared that any Mason who is hereafter admitted in this Jurisdiction
into any other orders, as Masonic, whether called the Rite of Memphis,
or by any other name, is acting unmasonically, and against the advice
and consent of this Grand Lodge.”
In many Grand Lodges, notably the United Grand
Lodge of England and the Colonial Grand Lodges, the grants
in the cause of charity are thus unostentatiously reported:
“ To a Brother of Lodge — £ —
To a Widow of Lodge — £ — . ”
But a resolution to act with equal modesty in Idaho was
tabled indefinitely. It seems to us the resolution should
have been adopted.
A resolution was introduced looking to the preparation
of a cipher of the authorized work, one copy of which was to
be furnished to the Master of each lodge, and failed of adop-
tion by a vote of 54 to 27. What would become of the O. B.
of the Entered Apprentice under the proposed arrangement?
A two-to-one vote is not a very pronounced defeat of this
resolution.
The presentation of the Signet Ring, heretofore made
by the retiring Grand Master to his successor, was done on
this occasion by a Past Grand Master, Jonas W. Brown, the
oldest Mason of this rank in the jurisdiction.
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The Report on Correspondence, the fourth, and cover-
ing seventy- three pages, is a review of fifty-five Grand Lodge
Proceedings, North Carolina for 1901 of the number, and is
the work of Past Grand Master Fred G. Mock, the Repre-
sentative of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina near the
Grand Lodge of Idaho. Brother Mock says this is his last
report, for the reason that he can not take from his business
the time demanded for the preparation of these reviews.
We sympathize with Brother Mock in the loss of his
baby boy, and know from experience of the grief which fol-
lows the death of our first born.
David C. Chase, M. W. Grand Master.
T. W. Randall, R. IV Grand Secretary.
ILLINOIS— 1901.
62ND Annual. Chicago. October i.
THE portraits of three Past Grand Masters are found in
different parts of the volume Levi Lusk, 1844; Rev.
Wm. F. Walker, 1845; and Nelson D. Morse, 1846. Besides
these, there are likenesses of President McKinley and the
retiring Grand Master, Bro. Charles F. Hitchcock.
The Grand Master commences his references to the
Masonic dead with this tribute to Brother McKinley:
“ While in the enjoyment of our prosperity, we are suddenly ap-
palled by the work of an assassin. Our beloved President and brother,
William McKinley, while extending the courtesies to his people, has
been foully murdered. In common with our fellow citizens, our hearts
are bowed with grief. Our martyred President was a man of pronounc-
ed Christian character, and had endeared himself to all by his simple
life, his sublime devotion to his wife and his love for all mankind. He
was faithful and courageous on the field of battle. He was the exem-
plification of true manhood, and by his tact and wisdom in conducting
the affairs of this government, has won for us high honor among foreign
nations. We cannot realize that so kind and amiable a man could be so
ruthlessly shot down. Believing as we do, in the goodness of God who
doeth all things well, we accept the last words of our brother and bow
with him in his closing words of submission, ‘ God’s will, not ours, be
done.’ ”
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In this brief address the Grand Master has made a re-
port of the usual Masonic functions performed, and offers
some suggestions which would be of service if acted upon
by every Grand Lodge in the world. We copy part of what
he says in reference to the formation of new lodges:
“With the new conditions existing and the wonderful prosperity
abounding all over the State, comes the desire for increased facilities
to attend lodge. Many requests have been made for authority to estab-
lish new lodges. In some instances, the locations were in too close
proximity to lodges already established; in others, the size of the town
did not seem to warrant and in two or three instances, where there were
no Masons, charters have been requested, with the statement that many
members could be secured if sufficient inducement was given to the orig-
inal charter members. As this organization does not hold out induce-
ment for members, it will be readily seen that such requests could
not be complied with.”
Another matter of very great importance to the individ-
ual lodge and the Craft generally is thus presented by the
Grand Master:
“ The law provides that each candidate must pass a satisfactory ex-
amination in open lodge, before he can be advanced to the next degree.
This law is imperative and must be obeyed. No candidate can be ad-
vanced without passing this examination except by a dispensation from
the Grand Master, and yet I have been informed that it is customary in
some lodges for some brother to vouch for the proficiency of the candi-
date and he is advanced. If any of the representatives present, are
guilty of this offense, they are deserving of the severest censure. Every
candidate is entitled to the lectures to make him proficient in the work
and it should be required that the District Deputy Grand Masters satisfy
themselves that the lodges in their district comply with the law in this
respect.”
On the subject of decisions, which is of more or less
trouble, the Grand Master reports very briefly, and is sus-
tained by the Jurisprudence Committee and by Grand Lodge.
He says:
“The usual number of questions have been asked pertaining to
points of law but in every instance an explanation was all that was re-
quired.
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“ A District Deputy Grand Master asks the following question:
“ Can objections be made by a member to a District Deputy Grand
Master sitting in a lodge, while making an official visit?
“ The answer was that objections could not be made.”
A resolution was adopted in Grand Lodge at the session
of 1900 to enter into fraternal relations with fifteen Grand
Lodges located on the continent of Europe, Egypt, Mexico,
and South America, and was referred to the Committee on
Correspondence, Most Worshipful Brother Robbins, for re-
port this year. Evidently some or all of these Bodies had
friends enough in Grand Lodge to prevent the adoption of
the report of the Committee, which was adverse to all of
them, and, upon motion of Most Worshipful J. C. Smith,
the consideration of the report was postponed until next
year. This review by Brother Robbins of the status of these
Masonic Bodies covers about seventeen pages of fine print
and is worthy of the closest study by the Masters and Ward-
ens of every lodge in the Jurisdiction of Illinois who will be
called upon to vote on this important matter next year. To
give our readers some idea of the value of this report would
require its reproduction as a whole, but we will copy just
three paragraphs as indicating the vigor of this merciless
arraignment :
“ In order to get any just idea of the relations of the German and
other continental bodies to the fraternity, it is necessary first to remem-
ber that at the time the first Grand Lodge was formed there was not
then, nor had there been, any Freemasonry existing outside of the
British Isles. The modern claim — or rather suggestion, for no Masonic
student of reputation dares to make the direct claim — that Masonry de-
veloped at different centers at the same time, independently of each
other, is without even the shadow of 'a foundation in fact. There was no
Freemasonry but British Freemasonry, and the Frenchman or the Ger-
man who received this received it under precisely the same conditions
of obligation as the Englishman, the Irishman or the Scotchman, all
equally agreeing to preserve inviolate the landmarks which define the
‘ body of Masonry ’ as being representative in its government, preserv-
ing to every member equal rights and eligibilities with every other
member, and excluding all distinctions save those of Apprentice, Fel-
low and Master by providing for no others.
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“Yet, as we shall see, no sooner had Masonry been transplanted
from its native home among a free people long inured to self-govern-
ment, than it began to he honeycombed by innovations and rapidly to
reflect the aristocratic, hierarchical notions and the spirit of caste of its
new environment. Lodges originally chartered by lawful authority soon
cut loose from that authority and set themselves up individually as prop-
agators of lodges and under the lead of kings who assumed the divine
right to substitute their own whims for the law of Masonry, declared
themselves grand lodges; and these alleged grand lodges afterwards
became the prey of every new system which came along with a more
imposing array of new degrees and distinctions than its predecessor,
each transformation leaving less and less of the Masonry of the origi-
nal plan.”
“If it is not proven that all the bodies named in the resolution of
recognition referred to us are as clearly shown to be open to these ob-
jections, it is clearly shown that in none of them has there been adduc-
ed any adequate evidence of their legitimacy; and the institution as
well as our own consciences is entitled to the benefit of the doubt.”
A very interesting, and sometimes eloquent, oration by
Right Worshipful Bro. V. M. Blanding was delivered before
Grand Lodge and ordered to be printed with the proceedings.
The liberality and practical charities of the Grand Lodge
are tersely told in this extract from the Report of the Com-
mittee on Chartered Lodges:
“ Contributed to members, their widows and orphans, 129,979.50
Contributed to those not members 6,547.51
Contributed to Illinois Masonic Orphans’ Home 9,046.41
Contributed to Masonic Home for Aged Masons 1,924.08
Contributed for Eastern Star Home 462.50
143,960.00 ”
In very many Subordinate Lodges and Grand Lodges
there are ambitious brethren who do not want to be delayed
in their journey to the East, and therefore desire a one-year
term for the Master or Grand Master. The Grand Lodge of
Illinois is not yet ready to adopt that plan, as can be seen from
this opinion presented by the Jurisprudence Committee:
“ As to the proposed amendment to the Grand Lodge By-laws, found
on page 57, Grand Lodge proceedings of 1900, wherein it is provided
‘that a Grand Master shall hold office for a term of one year only,’ the
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Committee suggest that such a restriction upon the rights of the mem-
bers of the Grand Lodge to re-elect a Grand Master, if the good of
Masonry will be subserved thereby, would not only be almost, if not
quite, unprecedented in the annals of Grand Lodges, but would be a
reflection upon the wisdom and intelligence of the members of the
Grand Lodge. We think the members of future Grand Lodges can be
trusted as they have been in the past. We, therefore, recommend that
the amendment be not adopted.”
There is a movement on foot for Grand Lodge to take
control and provide for the maintenance of two charities to
which it makes large annual contributions, but exercises no
control. The following resolution was referred for consider-
ation to a Special Committee:
“ Resolved : That the Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. & A. M., upon
a proper transfer to it of all the property and effects of the Illinois
Masonic Orphans’ Home and the Illinois Masonic Home for the Aged,
will accept the trust of both those institutions and make suitable pro-
vision for their maintenance.”
There are in the jurisdiction 725 lodges, and a member-
ship of 59,723, a net gain of 1,500 or more.
The Report on Correspondence, 229 pages, is the work
of Past Grand Master Joseph Robbins, and, although per-
formed under the stress of many distractions, is as full, as
interesting-, and as instructive as any of those we have seen,
and that is saying a great deal. He pays this compliment
to the Craft of North Carolina in his review of the Proceed-
ings of 1901 :
“ The twenty-three decisions rendered by the Grand Master and the
remarks of the Jurisprudence Committee thereon show that our North
Carolina brethren are pretty free from new-fangled notions, and are
doing business after the ways of the fathers.”
For kind personal reference we desire to express to
Brother Robbins our sincere appreciation.
Geo. M. Moulton, M. W. Grand Master.
j. H. C. Dill, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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INDIANA— 1901.
Both Annual. Indianapolis. May 28.
THE fly-leaf contains the likeness of the Grand Master-
elect, Orlando W. Brownback.
The address of Grand Master Olin E. Holloway covers
forty pages and is a detailed statement of his official acts.
Appropriate reference was made to the Masonic dead at
home and abroad ; four lodges were constituted ; corner stones
were laid four times, and five Masonic halls were dedicated.
The decisions of the Grand Master are in accordance
with the Indiana law, and although in two cases he decided
to sustain the law of the Grand Lodge as to physical qualifi-
cations, his personal views on this subject strike us as being
forcible and sensible. He says:
“ I cannot, however, in justice to what I believe is right, let pass
this opportunity to say that with my intimate knowledge of what mod-
ern surgery and American invention has done for these unfortunates,
that we are certainly splitting hairs when, without hesitation, we ad-
mit the man with an artificial palate or artificial ear drum, without
which the one of whom could not speak, or the other hear; or we con-
fer the degrees upon one whose vision is so defective that artificial
means of the most skillful construction are required, and refuse those
who can much more literally fulfill the requirements. I say this be-
cause in my decisions I have upheld the previous actions of this Grand
Lodge in opposition to my own conviction and judgment, regarding
what is right and just in these cases.”
Under the head of “ Inspection ” the Grand Master dis-
plays commendable courage in stating plainly that there are
willful violations of the law, gross irregularities of one kind
or another, which Grand Lodge alone can correct. These
extracts from his address will show that there was reason
for his concern :
“ When these irregularities began coming to my attention, I out-
lined for myself the same course of procedure, but as case after case
presented itself, and especially when in opening the Grand Lodge for
the purpose of dedicating a Masonic Hall, the Brother who was filling
the station of the Junior Grand Warden, took from his pocket a ritual,
and read to me the duties of his office, the climax was reached, and I
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determined to use my prerogative, and' probe the matter as thoroughly
as possible.”
“ In one lodge every word of the opening, work and closing, was
read from a ritual.
‘‘Six bodges instruct their candidates from leaflets containing
each degree separately, and in three Lodges the candidates are allowed
to use the rituals, with the instructions to stop at a certain page.
‘‘I know of one candidate who was so energetic, and who pro-
gressed so rapidly, that when the Worshipful Master forgot the in
the next degree, he was able, and did finish it without the Worshipful
Master’s assistance.”
“ With aproximately three thousand rituals in use by the officers
and members of the subordinate Lodges of the State, the assumption
that we will ever be able to eliminate them is untenable, t he edict of
the Grand Lodge on this question is a dead letter. The Grand Master
who would attempt to enforce it would have no Grand Lodge to whom
he could report. We have sinned away our day of grace, and much as
the fact is to be regretted, the ritual has come to stay. Granting this,
there is but one solution to the question. Indiana should own and
control her own ritual. I, therefore, recommend that a committee be
appointed by the incoming Grand Master, which committee shall fully
investigate this subject, make a selection of a ritual, present it for the
approval and adoption of the Grand Lodge, propose a plan for its con-
trol and distribution among the Lodges, and make such other sugges-
tions relative to this subject as their judgment may dictate. Said com-
mittee to report at the next Annual Communication of the Grand
Lodge.”
The following extract from the Report of the Special
Committee to which this part of the address was referred
was adopted by unanimous vote, and shows the appreciation
of the brethren for the zeal of the Grand Master:
“That in the efforts of Most Worshipful Grand Master Olin E Hol-
loway in the conception, promulgation and supervision of this inspec-
tion, this Grand Lodge records its appreciation of his heroism in insti-
tuting this effort when confronted by discouragements which had
daunted many another who saw the necessities of the case; its com-
mendation of his self-sacrificing spirit in persisting in this inspection
to a successful termination; its recognition of his tact and diplomacy,
his good generalship and wisdom in bringing this inspection to a close
without sowing discord or confusion; its satisfaction at his striving
simply and solely for the good of the Brotherhood, when no spirit of
ambition or longing for applause could be the prompting motive to his
labor of love.”
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A strong effort was made to commit the Grand Lodge
to the now popular enterprise of establishing a Masonic
Home. Four resolutions of like tenor were introduced and
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referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, which sat
down upon them in this way, and a very good way, it seems
to us:
“ Your Committee ou Ways and Means, to whom was referred the
resolutions of Brothers John R. Simpson, John W. Hughes, Mathias
Leamle and Charles McKinney, relative to a Home for Masons and
their widows and orphans, would report that however desirable such
an institution might be in some respects, yet we deem it inexpedient
for the Grand Lodge to enter upon its construction without being much
more fully advised as to the necessity therefor and the cost of construc-
tion and maintenance. We therefore recommend that the motions be
not adopted, but that the whole subject be referred to the incoming
Grand Master, with directions to investigate the needs and demands of
the Craft in this State for such a home, the probable expense of its
construction and maintenance and the workings of similar institutions
in other jurisdictions, with power to appoint a committee during the
year to further consider and report thereon to the next meeting of the
Grand Lodge, should he deem it advisable.”
The number of lodges in the Grand Jurisdiction is 504,
and the membership, December 1900, was 33,604; a gain of
1,482.
The Correspondence department this year is presided
over by Past Grand Master Daniel McDonald, who has pre-
sented in 207 pages a review of the transactions of sixty-
three Grand Lodges, North Carolina being of the number.
As a successor to the able brethren who recently performed
the duty of writing Correspondence reports, Brother Mc-
Donald need make no apology for the character of his work.
It is a very fine report, and his brethren will probably keep
him at this work, and in doing so will do well.
We cordially welcome him to a labor for which we
think he is well fitted.
O. W. Brownback, M. W. Grand Master.
Calvin W. Prather, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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INDIAN TERRITORY— 1901.
28th Annual. Durant. August 13, 14.
THE address of Grand Master J. W. F. Parker is a clear
presentation of his official acts for the year and re-
ceived the endorsement of Grand Lodge.
The condition of the Craft is satisfactory, as can be
seen by these statements of Brother Parker:
“ It affords me exceeding pleasure to report that Freemasonry has
prospered remarkably in this jurisdiction during the past year. Work
has been abundant and lodges have grown stronger in numbers and
finances.
“ The needy have been supplied, the widow assisted and the orphan
sheltered and given homes. Peace and harmony has been the watch-
word among the subordinate lodges throughout our Grand Jurisdic-
tion.”
The Grand Master pays affectionate tribute to the char-
acter of Bro. J. R. Sheehan, late Right Worshipful Deputy
Grand Master, and to the dead of other jurisdictions. Eight
dispensations were granted for the formation of new lodges.
Other special dispensations and the decisions of the Grand
Master were approved.
The Grand Lodge of Western Australia received frater-
nal recognition.
There are ninety-one orphan children reported in the
jurisdiction, and the brethren are working earnestly to pro-
vide a home for them. The Grand Master says:
“ I cannot close my report without complimenting the brethren of
this jurisdiction for the enthusiasm manifested by them in procuring
means in building this Home. From reports from our Orphans’ Home
Financial Agent, Brother Furman, the brethren and lodges throughout
the entire jurisdiction have become greatly interested in this noble
work, and contributions from lodges and individuals are coming from
all sections to swell the fund. It is useless for me to attempt to ex-
plain the great necessity for such a Home, as the ground has been cov-
ered in his several lectures and printed appeals to the public and the
Craft.”
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The Report of the Grand Secretary, Bro. J. S. Mnrrow,
is interesting and shows an increase of nine lodges, 213
members, and a gain in the funds of $680. There are 106
lodges, all told, and a total membership of 3,981, an average
of not quite thirty-eight.
The Grand Secretary has some recommendations to
make also, and we think this one not inappropriate:
“ I beg leave to again recommend that some of the officers of the
Grand Lodge, who have little or no duties to perform, be utilized by
instructing them to visit and inspect the Subordinate Lodges nearest
their residences. This may be done in a very fraternal and helpful
manner and, receive the hearty thanks of the Lodges.
“ There are many irregularities that may be corrected. The col-
lection of Lodge dues, the correct keeping of Lodge records and ac-
counts, the preservation of the important archives, and many other
matters might be looked into by the officers appointed by the Grand
Lodge, and their inspection and advice would be very helpful. The
District Deputy Grand Masters, Deputy Grand Master, Senior and Jun-
ior Grand Wardens, Custodians of the Work, Grand Lecturer and prob-
ably others could be utilized in this way very profitably.”
The Orphans’ Home Fund is at present ,14,714.77, and
the balance in General Fund $6,567.20.
The Financial Agent of the Home Fund, Bro. Henry
M. Furman, is, we think, very much in error in looking
only to voluntary contributions for the growth of this fund.
He says in part :
“ I am, therefore, unalterably opposed to any attempt at taxation,
as has been suggested. Let this be a free-will offering, a labor of love.
If a Brother is unable or unwilling to give, that is for him to decide
and is none of our business. We have no right to question his motives.
We are bound to believe that he is acting conscientiously. I do not
think any less of a Brother who does not help. I believe that he would
if he could. I say this because I do not want this Orphans’ Home mat-
ter to be embarrassing to any Brother. We know that you would help
if you could, and take the will for the deed.”
The Report on Correspondence, 118 pages, is a very
good review of the Proceedings of fifty-nine Grand Lodges,
North Carolina for 1900 of the number. One-half the space
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of Brother Murrow’s conclusion is devoted to an earnest
advocacy of the cause of the fatherless boys and girls, chil-
dren of dead brethren, who have become a proper charge
upon the Craft.
We make this extract because it seems to us thoroughly
practical and sensible :
“ The probability is that five-sixths of these children will become
farmers and farmers’ wives. It will be every way best to make the
Home something like the homes the children will make for themselves
when they become men and women. Great piles of brick and stone,
furnished elegantly and heated with steam, and supplied with water-
works, are not required. Factories and printing presses are not the
best industries.”
Henry M. Furman, M. W. Grand Master.
J. S. Murrow, R. W. Grand Secretary.
HIS volume of Proceedings is as handsome as the book-
makers’ art could make it. It is beautifully printed on
good paper, well arranged, fully indexed, and copiously
illustrated.
Grand Lodge was eloquently welcomed to Davenport by
the Mayor of the city, Brother Heinz, who said in part:
“ Worthy Grand Master and members of the Iowa Masonic frater-
nity, it becomes my pleasant duty to welcome you to this principal
oasis in the entire desert of Iowa. You are all welcome, not only your-
selves, but also your wives, your associates, and appurtenances, includ-
ing your camels, your goats, and other movable and immovable things
necessary for the good of the Order.
“ While you are locked up by yourselves deliberating as to what is
best to be done on the inside, I can assure you that Davenport’s hospi-
tality will see to it that your wives and daughters, as well as your
animals and other paraphernalia, are well taken care of on the outside.
“ May your hewing and setting of stone while you are with us prove
successful. Our street commissioner will furnish you the necessary
tools to do the work properly, and the police will see to it that you are
IOWA— 1901.
58th Annual.
Davenport.
June 4.
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not interfered with while at work; and should any of you get too tired
you can, by giving the password and the proper grip to our police mag-
istrate, retire and rest yourselves on the usual terms — $3.00 and costs or
five days; however, I hope that that will not be necessary.
1 ' Many of you have been here before and will know when it is time
to quit work. If you do not know, ask any member of the street bri-
gade . ’ ’
In sixteen pages Grand Master W. L. Eaton gives a
succinct account of his official doings, and in his opening
presents this pleasant picture :
“ The tide of Masonry was never higher in this jurisdiction than at
the present moment. As the representatives of Masonry in Iowa, I
congratulate you upon the proud position this fraternity has attained,
in this the grandest State in the grandest country in the world. The
shadows of discord have fled away, and the 1 white-winged angel of
peace ’ hovers over this Masonic jurisdiction. I believe the brethren
are each day getting brighter glimpses of a higher Masonic life, clearer
conceptions of the magnificent mission of this Order, and a truer reali-
zation of the possibilities that lie in the path of Masonry as it winds its
way up the shining heights of the future. A peerless destiny is before
the Masonic brotherhood, for its foundations are built upon truths
which are eternal.”
Appropriate reference is made to the Masonic dead ; nine
lodges were duly constituted ; dispensations were granted for
the formation of twelve new lodges ; the use and abuse of the
black-ball is referred to ; and card-playing in Masonic halls
mildly condemned. The prompt response of the Grand
Master to the cry of distress from Galveston and Jackson-
ville is commended by his brethren.
Recognition was extended to the Grand Lodge of Wes-
tern Australia, and action delayed upon the request of the
Grand Lodge of Costa Rica until next session of Grand
Lodge.
The Grand Master called attention to the fact that the
Grand Lodge of Switzerland desired an expression of opin-
ion of Grand Lodge as to “the desirability and feasibility
of the establishment of a permanent international office," the
function of which would be the cementing of fraternal rela-
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tions between Masonic Bodies of every nature and kind
throughout the world. The Special Committee to which it
was referred recommended that the matter be submitted to
the Committee on Correspondence for report at the next
Communication.
Corner stones were laid on three occasions and one
Masonic lodge dedicated, each function having been per-
formed by the Grand Master’s proxies.
The fine Masonic library, the best in America, if not in
the world, receives about thirty pages for consideration of
its value to the Craft and to the community.
The Deputy Grand Secretary, Bro. N. R. Parvin, seems
to be as fond of books as his venerable father.
The final greeting to Grand Lodge by its beloved Grand
Secretary, TheodoreS. Parvin, and the circumstances at-
tending it are graphically told in the following extract, and
it is believed that the brethren who read this report will
thank us for it :
“ Grand Master Eaton referred to the fact that for the first time in
the history of the Grand Lodge of Iowa the Grand Secretary was absent
from his post of duty, and in a voice trembling with emotion, said that
he was instructed with a last tender message from one whom all had
known and loved for many, many years. He said that a few days before
the session commenced he had taken the hand of Father Parvin. It was
thin and almost transparent. It hung lifeless in his grasp, and yet while
the body was thus apparently without life, the mind of the old man was
clear as a mountain brook. And from this bed of weakness, from which
he will never arise, the Grand Secretary sent this message of love and
hope and admiration to his fellow craftsmen in Iowa and elsewhere.
Father Parvin sent the following —
“ ‘ Greeting: My heart is with you at Davenport. My spirit will be
within the rooms where you hold your Grand Lodge sessions. I wdll
mingle with you in soul, as I have in body all the years. But, oh, I am
longing to be with you. I had hoped, even almost to the last and against
hope, that I might be able to be carried to Davenport and probably taken
in a litter to the Grand Lodge rooms, that at least I might see and hear
my brethren once more. But this was not to be. My strength is almost
gone, and I can only send through you this message. Tell the brethren
in Iowa that it is my last behest that they live up to the teachings of
the fraternity, that they may be Masons in fact as well as in name.
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And tell them also that if they desire to perpetuate my memory, if I
have done anything which deserves recognition, that they carry on the
work I have begun in the Grand Lodge Library. Let it be tny monu-
ment, and at the same time an enduring monument for Masonry in
Iowa. Into that institution my whole soul and the best years of my
life have been woven.’
“ This was the end of the message.
“ ‘ This comes to you,’ continued the Grand Master, 1 as a whisper
from the border-land, and probably the last message from one who
loves you and whom you and all the thirty thousand Masons in Iowa
have loved and revered through all the years. His old companions
have passed away. He alone is left, and his mind today is in a region
where there is nothing but graves of the past. I am satisfied that this
Grand Lodge will desire to make some response which shall be appro-
priate and in keeping with the universal sentiment of respect and
love.’ ”
The number of working lodges is given as 489, and the
membership at 30,324.
There is so much of interest throughout the volume that
it is hard to tell where to commence and when to leave off.
The Report on Correspondence is from the pen of Bro.
J. C. W. Coxe, and is of the quality which he has heretofore
furnished — the best. We are mighty glad to meet our brother
again, having missed him entirely last year.
Without saying “ by your leave ” we shall appropriate
part of his preface :
“ Our survey of the Masonic horizon has brought to view nothing
of dissension and but little of dissent. Occasional differences appear,
but they are such as independent judgment might be expected to pro-
duce, and are consistent with the peace, harmony, and fraternity which
should always and everywhere characterize our noble institution. We
have found really no strife or contention, save ‘ that noble contention,
or, rather, emulation, of who best can work and best agree.’ We can
heartily thank God for a clear sky and a tie of fraternal love which
binds Eastern to Western sea-coast, and links the Lakes to the Gulf in
delightful accord.”
L. j. Jackson, M. W. Grand. Master.
N. R. Parvin, R. IV. Acting Grand Secretary.
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IRELAND— 1900.
IN the Proceedings at hand it is found that Charters were
issued for nine lodges — eight in Ireland and one in
Bangkok, Siam ; and that two Charters were withdrawn, but
afterwards restored.
Nearly half of this pamphlet of thirty pages is devoted
to financial statements of the several funds of Grand Lodge,
and the balance to the address of the Deputy Grand Master,
Sir James Creed Meredith.
He refers to the visit of the Queen and the loyalty and
respect felt for her by the Craft in Ireland.
The condition of the Fraternity numerically and finan-
cially is reported to be satisfactory.
The Deputy Grand Master gives a very interesting ac-
count of the workings of the Masonic Boys’ and Girls’ School
and of the marked talent of some of the pupils. We quote
this :
“ That five boys obtained full marks is an almost unprecedented
achievement on the part of both pupils atjd teachers, and deserves, I
think, all praise. Our past pupils, too, have been successful during
the year. H. V. Thompson distinguished himself by obtaining in open
competition a clerkship of the Second Division of the Civil Service. It
is pleasing to us all to know that he has put himself in a position of
honourably and honestly winning his way in the world. The important
posts in this country are now open to boys of ability, no matter from
what rank they have sprung, or how very hard they may have found it
to obtain their education. Thompson was well educated in our Masonie
Boys’ School, and we are all glad that he has succeeded as he has done.
But there is the Blue Ribbon yet to be mentioned, for I think that we
Irish Freemasons — and looking round this room I see many who are
distinguished graduates of the old University in College Green — I do
think that we all have very great reason to be proud of William Bourke
Wright. He was elected a pupil of our Masonic Boys’ School when a
mere child. I may say that practically he never attended any other
school, that the entire foundation of the education that he received
was laid in our Masonic School, and that until the day he entered col-
lege the entire instruction that he derived was imparted to him in that
school. Our Brother John Holbrook was at that time, the entire of
that time, the headmaster of our school and it shows you, Brethren,
how much you owe to him and to his work in that school when you
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hear that William Bourke Wright, at the last examination for degrees
in the University of Dublin, obtained first place and gold medal at the
examination for the Mathematical Moderatorship; that he obtained
first place, with gold medal, at the examination for the Moderatorship
in Natural Science, and that as a result of his answering at these two
examinations he was awarded what all old Trinity men look upon as
the blue ribbon of the year — the Mathematical Studentship of the Uni-
versity of Dublin, with Tioo a year for five years.”
His Grace the Duke of Abercorn,
M. W. Grand Master.
Henry E. Flavelle,
R. IV. Grand Secretary and Treasurer.
KANSAS— 1901.
45TH Annual. Wichita. February 20, 21.
THE portrait of Grand Master Charles J. Webb occupies
the fly-leaf of this volume, an$ further on are found
the likenesses of three other Grand Masters, with short biog-
raphies of each, — Maurice L. Stone, William M. Shaver and
Chiles C. Coleman.
Among the Grand Representatives was Bro. Alex. A.
Sharp, doing the honors for North Carolina.
The address of Grand Master Webb opens with an elo-
quent exhortation to the Craft to emulate the virtues prac-
ticed by our ancient brethren during the erection of the
Temple.
The Grand Master presents this gratifying statement of
the condition of the Craft :
“ Substantial prosperity anti business success have blessed the peo-
ple of our State during the past year. None of our lodges have sur-
rendered their charters on account of lack of funds to meet current
expenses, and although this is the first year when the law of the Grand
Lodge requiring the lodges to suspend members two or more years in
arrears for non-payment of dues has been putin effect, yet the percent-
age of suspensions has been much less than the average in former years.
In many respects the record of the past year stands unequaled in the
history of the Grand Lodge. The returns show that during the past
year a greater number of degrees were conferred and a greater number
of candidates raised than during any former year, with a net gain in
membership of 882, w'hich with two exceptions is considerably larger
than during any previous year in our history. While the loss in mem-
bership by death has been small in proportion to our numbers, yet the
reports from our own and sister Grand Jurisdictions show that during
the year many eminent and faithful craftsmen have dropped the work-
ing tools of life.”
The great value of the schools of instruction which have
been held in different parts of the State is attested by the
Grand Master and by others who have had the opportunity
of noting their good effects.
The Kansas Masonic Home now shelters forty-four in-
mates, old men, women and orphan children, at a weekly
cost of $2.69 per capita. Of this institution the Grand Master
says :
“ We meet again this year in the city distinguished as the location
of that magnificent monument to the deepness and fullness of the heart
love of the Masons of Kansas, the Masonic Home, and our attention is
again attracted to this noble charity. Since the inception of this great
design I have carefully noted its development and progress, and ob-
served its management and intelligent control, and have watched its
record for practical charity among our aged brethren, our destitute
widows and our helpless orphans. This observation has resulted with
me, as it must with all who have given it similar thought and attention,
in developing an ardent love and sympathy with the work of this great
institution, and today I am proud to be enrolled among its ever increas-
ing band of ardent friends and supporters. Brethren, we are, and prop-
erly should be, proud of our Kansas Masonic Home. Those of you
who have not yet had an opportunity to personally inspect this great
charity, should not fail to make it a visit before you leave the city.
You owe this consideration to the Home, to yourselves and to your
lodge constituents. In view of the needs of this great benevolence,
and the work it is accomplishing in our name in the State, it is recom-
mended that the twenty-five cents per capita, borne so easily by our
lodges for the maintenance of the Masonic Home during the past three
years, be continued for another year.”
The number of chartered lodges is 362, and the mem-
bership 21,622.
Most Worshipful Brother John C. Postlethwaite has
presented a very good and interesting Report on Corre-
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spondence, covering 215 pages, and gives North Carolina
for 1900 fraternal notice. This is his warm greeting to the
Craft universal in the preface to his report :
“ In submitting this, our fourth Report on Correspondence, we
come before the Masonic world at the beginning of the new year of the
new century with a joyous, fraternal and happy greeting, our heart full
of gratitude to the Giver of All Good for the manifestations of His lov-
ing kindnesses to us and to the members of the Craft, and through
them to all the world, especially to the unfortunate, the destitute, the
helpless orphan, the dependent widow, and the aged and infirm Mason.
God has been pleased to use the Craft as an instrument in His hand
for dispensing charity, as the bearer of relief to the distressed and suc-
cor to the needy.”
We are entirely in accord with Brother Postlethwaite in
deploring the publication of the reports of Committees on
Appeals and Grievances, which is done by only a few of the
Grand bodges of the United States.
Our brother expresses himself under Missouri in this
wise :
“ We protest against the publication by the Committee on Griev-
ances and Appeals of the evidence and charges against the accused, as
stated in several of the cases reported by that Committee. We cannot
see where Masonry is to be benefited by such statements, and we be-
lieve this to be the better practice to follow in such cases: A statement
should be made when charges, evidence and papers submitted with the
appeal had been examined by the Committee, that they believe that
the accused had been rightfully sentenced or wrongfully sentenced,
as the case may be.”
Perry M. Hoisington, M. IV. Grand Master.
Albert K. Wilson, R. W. Grand Secretary.
KENTUCKY— 1901.
1 o 1 st Annual. Louisville. October 15.
VERY much of the address of Grand Master William C.
McChord is devoted to the consideration of domestic
interests — the erection of a Masonic Temple and the main-
tenance of the noble charities fostered by the Grand Lodge.
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The condition of the Craft is reported to be most satis-
factory in every way, but its rapid growth in popularity and
numbers impels the Grand Master to say:
“ Let not your zeal to increase the membership of your lodge, or
a desire to replenish your treasury induce you to allow those who do
not reach the high standing of morality which should characterize
Masonry cross the threshold of your lodge. It is in the power of each
individual Mason to prevent in a great measure improper material from
becoming a part of your lodge. To preserve the character and stand-
ing of our fraternity, and to enable it to fulfill the great mission of its
organization, i say to you, my brethren, ‘ Guard well the outer-door.’ ”
Fifteen decisions were rendered and all were approved.
We can not agree with this:
“ 7. A lodge charter was burned in August, 1900. The Grand Master
granted authority for the lodge to continue its work until the last day
of the next Grand Lodge. The charter was renewed by the next Grand
Lodge, but was not delivered to the subordinate lodge until after the
regular election of officers in December, 1900. Held: That the election
in the absence of the charter was void, and that the old officers held
over.”
As it looks to us, this lodge was neve?' without authority
to work ; it had the Grand Master's dispensation extending
to a certain time, and before the lapse of that time it had
the warrant of Grand Lodge, which became operative as
soon as it was properly executed. It was a matter of record
in Grand Lodge and the delay in transit and delivery was
simply an unimportant incident.
The Grand Secretary, Bro. H. B. Grant, presented each
of fifteen Past Grand Masters present with a jewel which
cost $50. Bro. Thomas Todd, the oldest living Past Grand
Master, and who had not missed a single meeting of Grand
Lodge for fifty-four years, responded to the presentation
address in behalf of his colleagues.
This resolution, presented by the Finance Committee,
was adopted — and the Temple is a fact:
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“ Resolved: That the committee now having in charge the erection
of a Masonic Temple in the City of Louisville, under the control of this
Grand Lodge, be continued, and that said committee is authorized to
erect a building, upon the lot already purchased, according to the plans
already agreed upon, or such as they may select, and for this purpose
they are authorized and empowered to borrow not exceeding $200,000.00,
upon the obligation of this Grand Lodge, secured by first mortgage
bonds upon the property, said bonds to run for thirty years, and to
bear not exceeding four per cent, per annum interest. The Grand
Lodge to reserve the right to redeem the bonds, or any part of them,
at any time, after three years from their date.”
This resolution came to grief at the hands of the Juris-
prudence Committee :
“ Resolved: That the Grand Lodge of Kentucky is hereby requested
to request each subordinate lodge to establish in their jurisdiction a
chapter of the Eastern Star for the ladies of Masonry.”
The Committee just said:
“In regard to the resolution offered by Bro. J. M. Smith (about
Eastern Star), we report said resolution with the recommendation that
it do not pass, as this Grand Body has repeatedly refused to recognize
or take jurisdiction over the order of the Eastern Star.”
Grand Lodge, through adoption of the Report of the
Finance Committee, approved the action of the Grand Master
in donating $200 each to the fire sufferers of Cloverport,
Ky. , and Jacksonville, Fla.
Another wise recommendation adopted was this :
“We recommend that in the future the Grand Treasurer and Grand
Secretary be required to give as surety upon the bonds required of them
some reliable guaranty or security company instead of personal securi-
ty, and that the fees for same be paid by the Grand Lodge.”
“The Doings of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, Free
and Accepted Masons” is the title of a very interesting com-
pilation by the Grand Secretary of important events which
occurred from the organization of Grand Lodge in 1800 up
to the Annual Communication of 1824. The history covers
T12 pages of the volume and the first twenty-four years of
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Grand Lodge life. The completion of this wcSrk should
meet the enthusiastic encouragement of the Kentucky
brethren.
At the Grand Lodge meeting of 1806 the Grand Secre-
tary reported a complaint of the Grand Lodge of North
Carolina against the Grand Lodge of Kentucky for invasion
of jurisdiction in erecting a lodge in Tennessee, which was
at that time part of the territory of North Carolina. Sharp
correspondence grew out of this incident, but harmony was
restored six years later when Kentucky discovered its error
and made frank acknowledgments and recalled the Charter
of the lodge in Tennessee.
The number of lodges on the roll is 467, and the mem-
bership 20,627, a gain of 757.
The Report on Correspondence is a review of the Pro-
ceedings of fifty-one Grand Lodges and covers 121 pages of
fine print. It is the work of Past Grand Master James W.
Staton and is a readable account of his ramblings.
The transactions of North Carolina for 1901 are pleasant-
ly reviewed by Brother Staton. He says he wants it dis-
tinctly understood that he is in favor of “the Masonic Homes
first, last, and all the time.” We admire Brother Staton’s
zeal and the generosity of Grand Lodge, and would not
hinder the progress of the good work if we could, but our
belief that the same amount of money properly invested and
the income disbursed in a different way would be a better
plan is still unshaken, especially in its application to old
men and women. The Home we believe to be better for
the orphan boy or girl — generally.
Harry Bailey, M. W. Grand Master.
H. B. Grant, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
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LOUISIANA— 1901.
89TH Annual. New Orleans. February ii.
THE address of Grand Master Robert H. Cage is a com-
paratively brief report of his official doings, but omit-
ting nothing which is usually found in these annual reviews.
The origin and subsequent work of Grand Lodge is
given in this interesting extract :
“ In looking back over the history of Freemasonry in Louisiana we
find that this Most Worshipful Grand Lodge was organized almost a
century ago (June 12th, 1812), by five Lodges. One of these Lodges was
chartered by the Grand Lodge of South Carolina, in T773; the other
four were chartered by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, in 1802,
1810 and 1811, respectively. From this Most Worshipful Grand Lodge,
thus organized, charters were issued to Lodges in our sister States of
Texas and Arkansas, which organized the Grand Lodge of Texas in
1838, and the Grand Lodge of Arkansas in 1842. This Most Worship-
ful Grand Lodge also issued charters creating Lodges in other Southern
States, as well as in Mexico and Cuba. Thus, beginning with but five
Lodges in 1812, this M<3st Worshipful Grand Lodge has built up in this
jurisdiction 138 constituent Lodges with a membership of about 6,000;
created a Relief Lodge, in the city of New Orleans, known as the
Louisiana Relief Lodge, No. 1, F. and A. M., where aid and assistance
are bestowed on all worthy Masons asking it, front all portions of the
globe; and, finally, has given to us this beautiful Masonic Temple, the
joy and pride of all the Masons of Louisiana.”
The Masonic dead, in the jurisdiction and abroad receive
appropriate reference ; the condition of the Craft is reported
to be in every way satisfactory'; and no necessity for any
ruling, although in the opinion of the Grand Master a revi-
sion of the Code should have attention.
In compliance with this recommendation the following
resolution was adopted:
“ Resolved , That a committee of three be appointed by the Most
Worshipful Grand Master to revise the General Regulations and Edicts
of this Grand Lodge, and to insert all decisions and rulings adopted
since 1893, when last printed, and as soon as the committee thus ap-
pointed have completed the work, that it be submitted to the Committee
on Masonic Law and J urisprudence for their revision and approval,
and the same submitted to this Grand Lodge at its next Annual Com-
munication.”
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On the receipt of authentic information of the extent of
the Galveston horror the Grand Master contributed $500 of
Grand Lodge funds to the sufferers, and the lodges added
enough to make the total donation $1,185.
The finances of Grand Lodg'e are year by year getting
in better shape, and of this gratifying condition he says in
part :
“ We hope that in March of this year to be enabled to retire $10,000
more bonds, and I am pleased to state that outside of our current month-
ly bills, and the bonded debt, this Grand Lodge does not owe a dollar,
and we have every reason to believe that in the next three years our
entire indebtedness will be wiped out. In closing the report on our
financial condition too much cannot be said in behalf of our Grand
Lodge Hall Directors who have given their time and best energies in
bringing about this satisfactory condition.”
From the Grand Secretary’s Report we find that early
in last year five lodges were chartered and dispensations
granted for the formation of three new lodges, and these
received Charters at this session.
Bro. Geo. S. Pettit, the Worshipful Master of Louisiana
Relief Lodge, in his annual report refers to a new kind of
tramp, the regular Mason in good standing and armed with
credentials, and says:
“ The usual applications for relief by brethren from other jurisdic-
tions are of daily occurrence.
“ I beg to call attention to the increased number of brethren from
other jurisdictions ostensibly in search of employment, when, as a
matter of fact, they are simply traveling around the country at the
expense of the fraternity, using our funds provided for different pur-
poses.
“ It is one of the most difficult and delicate duties devolving on the
Worshipful Master and Secretary, to discriminate between worthy and
unworthy in such cases.”
Now, it may be expected that the gallant soldier referred
to in the following report, and perhaps some of his friends,
will become non-affiliated because Masonry “ain’t worth
shucks” in boosting a fellow.
This is the report :
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“Your Committee on the State of the Order, to whom has been
referred the application of Linn Wood Lodge seeking official interposi-
tion with the President of the United States to gratify the aspiration,
by promotion, of a brother now serving in a military capacity, begs
leave respectfully to report that we find this proposition so at variance
with the functional obligations of a Masonic body, that we are con-
strained to conjure the brethren to listen to the still small voice after
the tumult of an innovation has been hushed, and to adhere to the
landmark, as well as the unwritten laws of Masonry; therefore, be it
“ Resolved , That the aforementioned application be not entertained,
and the request be hereby denied.’’
A resolution was adopted to give the use of the Grand
Lodge room to the Grand Chapter of the Order of the East-
ern Star at its annual meeting in June, 1901. This is just
as it should be.
In the Grand Jurisdiction of Louisiana there are 136
lodges, with a combined membership of 5,757.
The Report on Correspondence, seventy-two pages, is
the work of Rev. Bro. H. C. Duncan, Chairman of the Com-
mittee, and also Grand Chaplain, and is full of interest. Its
plan is somewhat like the topical, but lacking in the conti-
nuity of subject. The decisions of Grand Masters, with com-
ments in commendation or dissent, as may be, occupy most
of his space, but noble sentiments in the addresses of Grand
Masters or Grand Orators are liberally reproduced.
North Carolina receives some attention from our rever-
end brother, who says that “legislation seems to be need-
ed.” To this we may modestly reply that we have nearly
enough legislation and stand in need only of the under-
standing to appreciate and be governed by the laws we have.
Not many Worshipful Masters, or Grand Masters, for that
matter, possess the gifts of Brother Duncan, and hence he
need not be surprised or shocked to find occasional evidence
of ignorance of law and of rhetoric. Loss of lodge mem-
bership is, in North Carolina, the only penalty of non-pay-
ment of dues, and a committee recently expressed this pun-
ishment in the possibly inelegant word “dismembered,”
which provokes Brother Duncan to be jocose, thus:
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“ In looking up the action of the Grand Lodge on these matters
we are horrified to find that in that jurisdiction they sometimes ‘ dis-
member ’ a man if he fails to pay dues. Such a practice might be ex-
pected of Chinese Boxers, but it is awful to find it in vogue in these
United States. The fate of him who fails to pay in North Carolina is
worse than that of any of the pictures Dickens or Collins give us of
the prisons of England — they actually dismember the poor fellow.
Wonder if they give burial to the fragments of the frame, or do they
cast them out to the wild beasts of the field and the vultures of the air? ”
As if to make amends for nibbing the raw places on the
Tarheels, he quotes at length from the oration of Bro. James
H. Pou, giving a page and a half to extracts from that fine
address. We may say to our hypercritical brother that, not-
withstanding the verbal atrocity of dismemberment, the
operation itself in North Carolina is entirely bloodless and
guided by sentiments of justice and fraternity in every
detail.
Robert H. Cage, M. W. Grand Master.
Richard Lambert, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
MANITOBA— 1901.
26th Annual. Winnipeg. June 12.
| N less than eight pages Grand Master R. S. Thornton
■ gives an account of his stewardship, and in languageen-
tirely free of flourishes.
Appropriate allusion is made to the death of Queen
Victoria, and an address of loyalty was sent to her son and
successor, King Edward VII.
Dispensations were granted for the formation of four
new lodges, and thirty-one dispensations for other purposes,
twenty-one of which were for the purpose of attending church
in regalia. If it were not for the revenue in these dispensa-
tions, there ought to be no objection to giving these pious
brethren a free hand in this commendable practice.
Dispensations were granted to act on the petitions of
three candidates, one with an artificial left leg, one with an
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artificial left arm, and the third with an artificial foot. The
Grand Master argues that as it is the internal and not the
external qualification which is regarded in Masonry, these
otherwise desirable candidates should not be forbidden to
knock at the door of the lodge. He says further:
“ For the sake of affording further information on this question, I
would quote from correspondence I have had during the year with the
late G. W. Speth, Secretary of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge, and one of
the foremost authorities on Masonry. He writes:
“ ‘ The Grand Lodge of England has never laid down any law as to
physical perfection .... The result is that so long as a candidate
can conform to the more important of our requirements, we admit him,
providing, of course, he is otherwise desirable .... That is broadly
the j>rinciple we act upon. I can quite conceive that in England there
might be a lodge which would initiate a man without any of his four
limbs, provided he had still a tongue to prove himself with, because,
although he could not give the tokens, he could describe them, and I
venture to think that our Grand Lodge would see nothing wrong in it.
.... Surely it is the heart we look to, and the intellect, not the per-
son. If the latter, where shall we find a perfect man? ’ ”
The Grand Master calls attention to the importance of
having the right kind of a committee to investigate the
character of candidates and quotes from Mackey to sustain
his position. There are very few Grand Masters who do not
find it necessary to advise a closer inspection of material,
just as Brother Thornton does, and probably for like reasons.
The reports of the District Deputies indicate that the
Craft is doing well and that the tendency is upward ; indeed,
it could not be otherwise, considering the active missionary
work of the Grand Master and his colaborers.
The Grand Lodge of Western Australia and the Grand
Lodge of Cuba were fraternally recognized as regular and
independent Masonic Bodies.
There are sixty-seven chartered lodges, and four lodges
U. D. The total membership is 3,238.
R. S. Thornton, M. IV. Grand Master.
James A. Ovas, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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MAINE— 1901.
82ND Annual. Portland. May 7.
AVERY fine engraved portrait of Past Grand Master
Josiah H. Drummond, one of the most distinguished
Masons in America, if not in the world, forms the frontis-
piece of the volume and will carry satisfaction to the Craft
wherever it goes.
The address of Grand Master Winfield S. Choate, now
nearing the end of his second term in the Grand East, is a
compact statement of his labors for Masonry during the past
year.
For its statistical value we feel justified in giving space
to this extract from the address:
“ At the close of the eighteenth century there were fourteen Grand
Lodges in existence in the United States. All of the original thirteen
States of the Union, except Delaware, had organized a Grand Lodge;
these, with Vermont and Kentucky, made up the fourteen. The dates
of their several organization are as follows: Massachusetts 1777, Virginia
1778, Maryland 1783, Pennsylvania 1786, Georgia December 16th and
New Jersey Dec. 18, 1786, North Carolina 1787, New York 1787, South
Carolina 1787, Connecticut July 8 and New Hampshire July 18, 1789,
Rhode Island 1791, Vermont 1794 and Kentucky 1800. Delaware fol-
lowed in 1806, and from that date the other Grand Lodges in the United
States organized as follows: Ohio 1808, District of Columbia 1810,
Louisiana 1812, Tennessee 1813, Indiana January 12 and Mississippi
July 27, 1818, Maine 1820, Alabama and Missouri 1821, Florida 1830,
Arkansas 1832, Texas 1837, Illinois 1840, Wisconsin 1843, Iowa January
8 and Michigan September 14, 1844, California April 28 and Kansas
March 17, 1850, Oregon 1851, Minnesota 1853, Nebraska 1857, Washing-
ton 1858, Colorado 1861, Nevada January 16 and West Virginia May 11,
1865, Montana 1866, Idaho 1867, Utah 1872, Indian Territory October
5 and Wyoming Dec. 15, 1874, South Dakota 1875, New Mexico 1877,
Arizona 1882, North Dakota 1889, Oklahoma 1892.”
Appropriate reference is made to the Masonic dead in
his own and other jurisdictions.
The condition of the Craft is reported as entirely satis-
factory, and it is not surprising when we take note of the
fact that there were 240 rejections within the year, or about
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twenty per cent of all applying for the degrees. This close
tyling is the best, if not the only effective, means of reduc-
ing the ranks of the wanderers.
The decisions of the Grand Master, in fact all his official
acts, received unqualified approval.
The Committee on Jurisprudence, reporting upon the
clandestine Grand Lodges claiming authority in Ohio and
Kentucky, makes this vigorous presentment :
“ There is no need of any investigation, as the history of those or-
ganizations, from their very inception to the present time, is well
known to the Craft. They both spring from the same source and were
organized in such utter defiance of masonic law and usage as to make
them gross frauds upon the community; not merely irregular, but ut-
terly spurious and clandestine. They know that no regular Grand
Lodge in the world will recognize them; and these circulars are sent
out merely to gain a little notoriety. They should not be allowed to
succeed even in this, and should be treated as nearly as possible with
the contempt of silence.”
This extract from the Grand Master’s address will ex-
plain itself;
11 1 have received copies of letter and telegrams passed between the
Board of Relief at Oakland, California, and Eggemoggin Lodge, No.
128, of Sedgwick, relating to relief furnished a brother of said lodge
and expenses of burial. I suggest that the matter be referred to the
Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence for consideration.”
And that Committee makes this report, which, to our
mind, expresses the true doctrine of Masonic Relief:
11 The Grand Lodge has already often decided that Masonic charity
can neither be bought nor sold. It has repudiated the modern inven-
tion, that when a man becomes a Mason he buys the right to be relieved
to the full extent of his wants when in distress, even to his full sup-
port. It still requires candidates to declare in their petition for ad-
mission that they are 1 uninfluenced by mercenary motives.’ It holds
that when a Mason joins a lodge, he does not increase or change his
right to relief in distress. The lodge is in this respect an association
of brethren, and is bound by the same principles as the individual
brother. It maintains the ancient doctrine, that a Mason’s right of re-
lief grows out of his being a Mason, and is limited not only by the ex-
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tent of liis distress but also by the ability of his brother, of which such
brother is the sole judge under his Masonic obligations. It finds no-
where in ancient usage or law any warrant for the modern doctrine
held to by a few, that one brother can determine the ability of another
and relieve distress in his name and on his account without his consent,
and even — as in this case — against his protest. "It follows that Masonic
charity creates no pecuniary debt, either upon the part of the brother
relieved or any one else.”
The number of working lodges is g-iven at 197, and the
membership at 22,690, a net gain of 413.
The Report on Correspondence is of course the work of
Past Grand Master Josiah H. Drummond, and this is what
he has done :
“ We have the pleasure of presenting a review of all the United
States and Dominion Grand Lodges, and of a larger number of Foreign
Grand Lodges than ever before: in fact, all of the English speaking
Grand Lodges except Scotland.”
In this labor so briefly referred to there are 296 octavo
pages of very fine print, and the topics discussed include
almost everything in the wide domain of Masonry. It is a
wonderfully fine exposition of Masonic literature, law and
usage.
North Carolina for 1901 receives kind consideration and
nearly seven pages of space. Brother Drummond, to our
mind, — it may be obtuseness — in no wise weakens our criti-
cism of the position taken by Brother Locke. In Masonry
it is the man himself, and not his politics or religion, that is
to be investigated; if he is good material, take him; if not,
let him go ; but let not his intrinsic unfitness be charged to
his real or supposed religious belief. The rejection of the
petition of a Catholic is no more tenable than that of a Pres-
byterian or Baptist, for these churches are opposed to all
secret organizations. Reject, if you will, but let the rejec-
tion be for individual unfitness and not for any religious bias
or preference.
Alfred S. Kimball, M. W. Grand Master.
Stephen Berry, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
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MARYLAND— 1900.
j"HE 227th Stated Communication was held on the 8th of
• May, and the 1x4th Annual on Nov. 20, 1900, at 8 p. m.
on each occasion.
At the Stated meeting of Grand Lodge in May the sev-
eral committees submitted reports in regard to the business
affairs of the Maryland Fraternity.
At the Annual Communication the Deputy Grand Mas-
ter, Right Worshipful Bro. John A. Russell, presided in the
Grand East and read the address of Grand Master Thomas
J. Shryock, who was then out of the jurisdiction in quest of
health.
Among the thirty-eight Grand Representatives present
we find the name of Bro. Samuel Eccles, Jr., the Repre-
sentative of North Carolina.
Having had no occasion for rendering any decisions,
the Grand Master gives this explanation of the circum-
stance :
“ During the year just past I have not been called upon to make
any decision on points of Masonic law. I think the Craft in our juris-
diction is to be congratulated upon this circumstance, as it shows most
clearly that the brethren, who are called upon to fill the positions of
Masters of Lodges, are well schooled in the Constitution of the Grand
Lodge, and are thus able to decide for themselves what is the law gov-
erning their bodies as laid down in our constitution.”
Many special dispensations are reported, each coming
within the prerogative of the Grand Master.
The Grand Master reports slight damage to the Masonic
Temple by fire, but the loss fully covered by insurance.
The Grand Lodge of Relief is commended for its effi-
cient service which, owing to the general prosperity of the
country, has not had many requisitions made upon it during
the year. In this connection the Grand Master refers to the
benefits arising from thoroughly organized Relief Boards:
“ The establishment of the Masonic Relief Association throughout
the United States and Canada and the intelligent management of the
same, has, to a very great extent, if not entirely, eliminated the profes-
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sional Masonic tramp, which formerly infested all of our Grand Juris-
dictions, and I heartily recommend the Grand Lodge to continue as a
member of the Masonic Relief Association of the United States and
Canada and to make the usual appropriation to that Body.”
There are 104 lodges, and a membership of 8,283.
The Report on Correspondence is a review of the Pro-
ceedings of fifty-three Grand Lodges and covers 108 pages,
about a third of the volume. It is the handiwork of Bro.
Edward T. Schultz, who, though laboring under the afflic-
tion of total and hopeless blindness, writes with rare per-
ception and vigor and exhibits a spirit of cheerfulness that
is wonderful. He has the warm sympathy and love of his
brethren to comfort him.
North Carolina for 1900 receives kindly notice, and
Brother Schultz approves the action taken by the Grand
Lodge on the status of those excluded for non-payment of
dues.
Thomas J. Shryock, M. W. Grand Master.
Jacob H. Medairy, R. W. Grand Secretary.
MASSACHUSETTS— 1900
ONLY the volume containing the proceedings of Decem-
ber 12th, and of the Stated Communication of Dec. 27,
1900, have come to hand, but it is full of good things from
first to last.
The Grand Master’s Annual Address at the Communi-
cation of December 12th was a complete account of his
management of the affairs of Grand Lodge and elicited high
praise from his brethren.
The condition of the Craft is briefly told by the Grand
Master:
“The work of the year in the various Lodges, the financial condi-
tion of the Grand Lodge and our Temple, and the condition of the Fra-
ternity throughout the State, are most pleasing and satisfactory.”
The Lodge of St. Andrew, as it has been doing for some
years past, contributed $500 to the Masonic Education and
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Charity Trust, the income from which is to be applied to the
charities of Grand Lodge.
Ceremonies of dedication of lodge buildings were several
times conducted by the Grand Master; and his official visits
make a very long list, longer than was ever made before by
any Grand Master, and the manner of making them is cred-
itable to his zeal and good sense :
“ In all iny visits to Lodges I have gone unattended by a suite, gen-
erally without previous notice, and as far as possible without ceremony. ”
On the Anniversary of St. John the Evangelist, the offi-
cers were duly installed, and then followed the Grand Feast,
the most notable event of the year. The Recording Grand
Secretary, Brother Nickerson, says in the closing paragraph:
“ The celebration of this Feast of St. John the Evangelist was mark-
ed with great enthusiasm and good spirit by the great number of
Brethren participating; especially was it remarked that the injunctions
of the fathers and the traditions of the day had been faithfully observ-
ed, in the true spirit of our respected and beloved Institution.”
The lodges number 236, and the membership is 41,019.
Chas. T. Gallagher, M. W. Grand, Master.
S. D. Nickerson, Recording Grand Secretary.
HE portrait of Grand Master Lucian E. Wood occupies
the fly-leaf of this volume of Proceedings. His ad-
dress, covering only twenty pages, is a full account of his
official acts.
The death of two Past Grand Masters is sadly an-
nounced— Alanson Partridge and Edward L. Bowring —
elected respectively to the highest office in the Fraternity in
1882 and 1895. They were both buried with the honors of
Masonry. The passing away of distinguished Craftsmen in
other Grand Jurisdictions is appropriately noted.
MICHIGAN — 1901.
57TH Annual.
Detroit.
January 22.
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Dispensations were issued for the formation of three
lodges, and other applications for like purpose were refused
for sufficient reasons.
Very many special dispensations for various purposes
were granted, and all approved. The decisions of the Grand
Master were all sustained by Grand Lodge, through the
recommendation of the Jurisprudence Committee, which
paid the Grand Master this compliment:
“Your Committee desire to express their hearty approval of the
business-like manner in which the Grand Master has conducted the
affairs of his office, especially so in regard to the exceedingly few de-
cisions he has reported to Grand Lodge. Questions of jurisprudence
which have been decided, even if asked again, ought not to be reported
and re-reported, as such action only tends to confuse and mislead;
hence the departure of the Grand Master in only reporting such deci-
sions as are not covered b}r the Blue Book is to be commended and ap-
plauded as a step in the right direction and worthy to be followed.”
The functions of corner-stone layings and dedications
were frequently performed by the Grand Master or his
proxies.
The official visits were, as is almost invariably the case
with every Grand Master, occasions of pleasure and profit
to the visitors and visited alike.
On the recommendation of the Jurisprudence Commit-
tee, an amendment to the Constitution was adopted, making
a time limit of five years to jurisdiction over rejected ma-
terial, instead of always as heretofore. This is right, and
it is not improbable that in time this period will be lessened.
The Grand Master recommended that a room, to be
known as “Grand Lodge Room,” be furnished in the Ma-
sonic Home Building, and the same was adopted.
We take this paragraph from the close of the address
and very gladly endorse the sentiments and the exhortation :
“ Masonry must from the very nature of things be felt and its in-
fluence and power recognized among men, for this reason it behooves
us all to be true to our country, just to the government in which we
live, and to this end we may continue to keep at the front in all refine-
ment and civilization, let us, like brave men and true, struggle for those
rewards which come to those who do not weary in well doing.”
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The condition of the Masonic Home is entirely satis-
factory, except that there is need of some repairs. From
the Report of the Board of Control of the Home we make
these extracts:
“ The receipts from all sources during the year ending November
30, were $6,885.67, and the disbursements $6,478.15.
“The average weekly per capita cost of maintenance was $2.91.
Beneficiaries at the Home, Nov. 30, 1900, 45: 35 men, 9 women and 1
boy. Average age of the 35 men, 72 years; of the 9 women, 75 years.’’
“ In short, the purpose of the Board is to make this a model Home
for dependents; to do all that can be done to make it unlike a poor-
house, but homelike; a place where our brethren, and the widows and
orphans of brethren, may pass the remaining years of their life in
comfort.
“ The ladies of the Eastern Star are materially aiding us in our
efforts. They best know what a Home should be, and all honor to
them for their part in the good work.
“ The policy of the management has been unanimously agreed upon
and we are pleased to report that a spirit of harmony and unity per-
vades the Board of Control.”
During a brief interval in the business of Grand Lodge
Past Grand Master McCurdy addressed the brethren on the
subject of the Grand Lodge as it was fifty years ago. We
would be glad to present it entire, but must be content with
brief extracts :
“ I am the only member living of this Grand Lodge. There were
about forty members present and nearly all were grey-headed men.
The snows of age had fallen upon their hair, in witness of the fact that
the Masonic Order had not then the vitality it has since enjoyed. Now
it has the strength of the young and middle aged, and has put on the
robes of victory.”
“ I have been personally acquainted with every Grand Master of
this Grand Lodge from General Past Grand Master Lewis Cass to date,
and when he was stumping this State for President Buchanan, I had
the honor to entertain him at my humble home in Corunna. I was
frequently a caller at his home at the corner of Cass and Fort streets
in Detroit, where he lived in a story and a half frame building, and in
the hall of his home and in the sitting room he had painted on the
walls thereof, the Masonic emblems of the first three degrees.”
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The number of lodges is 388; the membership 43,742,
a net gain of 1,760.
We miss the genial and versatile Grand Secretary, Bro.
Jefferson S. Conover, from the Reporters’ table and, instead
of a Report on Correspondence, we find communications
from the Grand Representatives of nine Grand Lodges, in
which items of interest are culled from the Proceedings of
the Grand Jurisdictions by which they are accredited to the
Court of Michigan. It is a departure from the beaten path
of the Correspondence Reporter and shows the possibilities
of usefulness as well as honor in the Grand Representative
System.
Frank O. Gilbert, M. W. Grand Master.
Jefferson S. Conover, R. W. Grand Secretary.
MINNESOTA — 1901.
48TH Annual. St. Paul. January 23.
THE portrait of Grand Master Alonzo Brandenburg occu-
pies the fly-leaf of the Proceedings, and pictures of
Bros., the Rt. Rev. Mahlon Norris Gilbert, D.D., LL. D.,
and Giles W. Merrill, Secretary, are found with the trans-
actions of the Masonic Veterans’ Association in the back
part of the volume. Bishop Gilbert died when still a young
man and was content to remain within the 'precincts of the
Blue Lodge.
Grand Lodge cabled to the Grand Master of Masons in
England a message of condolence on account of the death of
his mother, Queen Victoria.
The Grand Master’s address is a compact history of the
official acts of his administration. Six lodges were consti-
tuted, and dispensations issued for the formation of five
others.
The destruction by fire of three lodges is reported, two
having had insurance and one without any protection of this
kind.
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The Grand Master has this to say of the duties of the
representatives of constituent lodges at the Grand Lodge
meetings :
“ I wish to remind the representatives of lodges that they are here
for a purpose. Mileage and per diem are paid to one representative
present from each lodge, and the Grand Lodge is entitled to your time
and service until the end of the session. That we have needed your
assistance has been called forcibly to my mind many times, especially
at our last Annual Communication, when the report of the Committee
on Dissemination of the Work came up at the evening session, just be-
fore the close of Grand Lodge. If a call of the roll had been made we
would have found ourselves with only a minority of the lodges repre-
sented. We want the benefit of the best thought of all of you, my
brethren; we want you here during the whole of the session, from the
time the Grand Lodge is opened until its close. Then we shall not be
compelled to lay over any work to the next session of the Grand Lodge
which ought to be done at the present one. As it was, the report of
said committee, as amended, was laid over to this session, and should
be taken up and disposed of at as early an hour as practicable.”
The excellent report of the Grand Secretary, Thomas
Montgomery, shows the Craft of Minnesota to be prosper-
ous. Cash in hand is reported to be $11,043.84, and Widows’
and Orphans’ Fund $22,612.70. Appropriations for the re-
lief of needy widows and brethren aggregate about $3,500,
and this method of dispensing Masonic charity commends
itself to us as being eminently proper and in strict accord-
ance with the genius of Freemasonry.
Bro. David T. Calhoun, the Grand Orator, delivered a
fine address on the “ Universality of Masonry,” the closing
paragraph of which we quote :
“ Masonry, then, has no report of progress to make, no new message
to give the world, or the promise of any. The world has not outgrown her
teachings, nor has she lost her place, nor is she likely to, till the grand
doctrine of the brotherhood of man is universally recognized and acted
upon, instead of being simply a beautiful theory; until the words
‘ brotherly love,’ ‘ relief,’ and ‘ truth ’ make sweeter music for the ears
of men than the triumphant blare of the trumpet telling of the defeat
and slaughter of his fellows; until the ‘ God of Nations’ shall become
the ‘ God of Peace’ instead of the ‘ God of War; ’ nor until that white
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apron, emblem of purity and peace, shall be more highly honored by
all the nations of the earth than the blood-stained banner of war.
Then, but not till then, may her epitaph be written.”
There are 221 lodges, with a membership of 16,886.
Bro. Irving Todd, as of yore, occupies the position of
Correspondence Reporter and, in the compass of eighty-five
pages, gives a good summary of the Proceedings reviewed.
North Carolina for 1900 receives fraternal notice and due
allowance of space.
Gideon S. Ives, M. W. Grand Master.
Thomas Montgomery, R. W. Grand Secretary.
MISSISSIPPI— 1901.
83RD Annual. Oxford. February 28.
PORTRAITS of Grand Master B. V. White and of
Gen. John Carson Smith, Past Grand Master of Illi-
nois and Grand Representative near that Grand Lodge of the
Grand Lodge of Mississippi, are found in the first pages of
this volume of Proceedings. Interspersed in the report of
the Committee on Necrology appear the likenesses of three
Past Grand Masters, eminent citizens, who had passed with-
in the veil— John M. Stone, John F. McCormack and Wil-
liam Starling.
So distinguished a Masonic author and traveler as
Brother Smith could not escape from his host, the Grand
Lodge, without making a speech, and our readers will en-
joy, we are sure, an extract or two :
“ Our first sight of Judea was at 10 o’clock one bright morning, and
at High Twelve we were ashore at Jaffa, or Joppa, as Masonically known.
The landing is not without danger, for, as Masonic history and tradi-
tion informs us, it is an iron or rock-bound coast, and lucky are the
passengers who land without a wetting in passing through the narrow
channel.
“ There is a low reef across the front of the city, in which there is
a narrow passage through which the ship’s yawls land the passengers
and small coasters may gain entrance when there is a smooth sea. To
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your left as you enter the passage is an iron bolt, to which, we are told,
Andromeda was chained, to be held until devoured by a monster, but
who, fortunately, was rescued by Perseus and afterwards became a
bright planet in the heavenly firmament. So much for mythology and
that iron-bound coast.
“ As we approached the landing I stood up in the bow of the boat,
and in the joy of my heart, with extended arms, exclaimed, ‘Joppa!’;
was grasped by the hands, assisted up the embankment and into the
arms of the most villainous-looking customs officials I had yet met.”
“ We found the hills of Judea precipitous and barren, exeept for
on olive tree here and there, and with many horrid crevices and robber
dens among the cliffs. Just such a country extending far to the west
of the Temple as outlaws and murderers would seek to escape justice.
We passed the brook of David, the village of Abu Gosh, as we had the
various Turkish Guard towers by the way, and arrived in sight of Jeru-
salem early in the afternoon, when the declining sun sent its bright
rays over dome and minaret, giving us the most beautiful view of the
Holy City to be had. We spent days and weeks in and about Jerusa-
lem, Bethany, Bethlehem, Hebron, the Dead Sea, the river Jordan and
Jericho. We were several times at the inn to which the traveler who
fell among the thieves was carried, and assure you that any one who
cares to travel over such a country deserves no better treatment. While
all this land is of interest, the great center of attraction is Jerusalem,
and in that city the two principal points are the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre and the Mosque of Omar. The first is said to cover the place
of the crucifixion and the Holy Sepulchre, the most sacred points of
interest for the Christian in the city, and the other the Temple of our
first Most Excellent Grand Master, Solomon, King of Israel, alike in-
teresting to the Christian as to the Freemason.
“ Did time permit it would afford me pleasure to tell you of the
dome of the rock (Mt. Moriah) seen inside the Mosque of Omar, and
the construction of the platform, or area, upon which the Mosque is
builded, as was that of the famed Temple of King Solomon.
“ After a careful study of the subject, I find Masonic tradition as
interesting and fully as reliable as to this city and country as profane
history, and should the day ever come when the vaults, chambers,
recesses, cisterns and pools underneath the Temple area be explored,
we will be startled at the discoveries that will be there made.
“ In my early membership in the Craft, I believed, as have many
others, that Masonry had its origin at the building of King Solomon’s
Temple. I do not think so now, for I find too many evidences of
skilled masonry in the tombs, temples and vast edifices in Egypt from
which the Israelites came. We cite the two pillars in front of the tem-
ple as something novel and unique, when it was but a custom of the
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Egyptians, for in front of each of their temples were always placed
two obelisks. In a corn-field above Cairo there now stands, like a lone
sentinel, a large obelisk. The companion column is on the banks of
the Thames, London, and those two obelisks were in front of the Tem-
ple of the Sun in On, the city of Heliopolis, the daughter of the High
Priest of which was given by Pharoah to Joseph for a wife, and that
one obelisk is all that remains to mark the site of that famed city.”
In the opening of his address Grand Master White pays
eloquent and tender tribute to the illustrious Craftsmen of
his jurisdiction who have been called away, and to the dis-
tinguished dead of other Grand Jurisdictions.
No decisions were made by the Grand Master, because
all questions usually decided by Grand Masters are in Mis-
sissippi referred to the Committee on Law and Jurispru-
dence and reported to Grand Lodge, thus saving the execu-
tive a large amount of work.
Many dispensations to act upon petitions and confer
degrees within the statutory time were granted and some
of like nature were refused.
The report of the Grand Secretary, Bro. J. L. Power,
and the thirty-second submitted by him, covers eighteen
pages and is full of interest to the Craft of the State. It is
a brief historical retrospect of the Grand Lodge, and Brother
Power received, as he deserved, the commendation of his
brethren.
The Trustees of the Masonic Home Fund reported the
amount on hand, mostly in paying securities, to be $27, 757.47,
and the Grand Lodge is now on the lookout for a suitable
site on which to establish the Home.
The report of the Law Committee is voluminous and
was adopted by the Grand Lodge in its entirety.
As in other jurisdictions, we find from the reports of the
District Deputies that most of the lodges are doing well,
but that a few need instruction and stimulation.
The most interesting part of the volume is that con-
taining the addresses delivered at the Memorial Service in
honor of the distinguished Masons who had recently died.
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The oration of Bishop Galloway is a very fine tribute to the
virtues and character of the late Governor, J. M. Stone, but
all the speeches were good.
In the Grand Jurisdiction there are 284 lodges, with a
membership of 9,856, a gain of 284.
The Report on Correspondence, 109 pages, is from the
pen of Most Worshipful Bro. A. H. Barkley and is as usual
interesting and instructive. He gives North Carolina for
1900 kindly notice and more than average space. As the
Representative of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina at
his own court he may be charged with partiality, but of
course we consider it only a just recognition of our merits.
Brother Barkley submitted special reports on the matter
of the recognition of the Grand Lodges of Belgium, Cuba,
Porto Rico, Gran Dieta of Mexico, and Western Australia.
Grand Lodge acknowledged the last named, but held the
status of the others in abeyance until next year.
Oliver L. McKay, M. W. Grand Master.
J. L. Power, R. IV. Grand Secretary .
MISSOURI— 1901.
8ist Annual. St. Louis. October 15.
THE portrait of the Grand Master, Campbell Wells, forms
the frontispiece of the volume, and the counterfeit
presentation indicates a man of parts and of character. This
is the picture of Brother Wells drawn by those who know
him best:
“ Of Brother Wells it may be safely said, without disparagement to
any of his predecessors, that his administration was the most vigorous
and far-reaching in influence of any in the history of the Grand Lodge.
More official attention was given to the welfare of the Craft than has
been known in the past. As a fine worker in the ritualistic department
he has had no superior. His ability as a presiding officer won the
highest tributes from his Brethren. In all parts of official life, as in per-
sonal character, Campbell Wells stands pre-eminently in the front rank
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he bears his honors gracefully and without ostentation, retiring with the
same dignity that marked his deportment in the past. It is a grateful
fact, cherished by the Masons of Missouri, that our Grand Masters have
been MEN. The elevated tone of the Fraternity may be largely ascrib-
ed to this fact. Representative in moral worth, intelligence and char-
acter, no stain has touched the fair name and escutcheon of Masonry
in this Grand Jurisdiction. Our Brother Wells takes his place among
these ‘worthies’ who have done honor to the high stations to which
they had beeu called, as ‘the first among his equals.’ ”
The address of the Grand Master covers thirty-six
pages, but considering the extent of his labors for the Fra-
ternity there is no redundency in the history of his adminis-
tration.
Upon learning of the Galveston disaster he caused to be
forwarded to the distressed brethren of Texas the sum of
$500, and Grand Lodge approved the act.
In accordance with a custom which is becoming more
general in its observance, the Grand Master recommended
that the personal bonds heretofore given by the Grand Treas-
urer and Grand Secretary be changed, and that hereafter
some reliable Bonding and Trust Company be made the
sureties of these officials. The recommendation as to the
Grand Secretary was adopted and $250 appropriated to pay
for his $25,000 bond, but no change was made in the bond
of the Grand Treasurer.
Dispensations were issued for the creation of seven new
lodges, and the belief expressed that the formation of these
lodges would not affect injuriously the older contiguous
lodges.
Many special dispensations were granted, and all ap-
proved. One which does not strike us as wise permits wear-
ing regalia at a barbecue and picnic, the proceeds of which
were to be applied to benevolent purposes. The wearing of
Masonic clothing on this occasion probably did not add to
the receipts, and it is equally probable that the display did
not increase the respect of thoughtful people for the Frater-
nity. But the boys will have these shows if they can, and
it is sometimes hard for the Grand Master to deny them.
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In the many lodges of instruction held in different parts
of the State the Grand Master presided in all but one, and
from that he was kept away only by sickness. This com-
mendation from the Committee on Address, adopted by
Grand Lodge, shows that his work is appreciated:
“ Your committee would feel that it had failed to properly perform
its duty if it neglected to refer to the valued services rendered the
Grand Lodge by Most Worshipful Bro. Campbell Wells during his term
of office. . He has in person officially visited a goodly number of Lodges;
he has presided as Grand Master over an unprecedented number of
State Lodges of Instruction; he has, on every important occasion, when
possible, absented himself from home and business in the interests of
the Craft. We recommend that the hearty thanks of this Grand Lodge
be tendered to its retiring Grand Master for the earnest and efficient
manner in which he has discharged the duties of his office.”
There were ten occasions calling for the laying of corner
stones.
The decisions of Brother Wells were all approved by
Grand Lodge as in accord with Masonic law. There is lib-
erality and good sense in those relating to physical qualifi-
cations.
Grand Lodge has contributed $2,000 toward the erection
of a building to be used by all the fraternities at the St.
Louis Exposition to be held in 1903. Of this the Grand
Master says in part:
“ An organization has been perfected and incorporated under the
name of the World’s Fair Fraternal Building Association, the purposes
of which are to erect on an eligible site within the Hxposition grounds,
furnish, equip and maintain a magnificent structure, to cost from $150,-
000.00 to $200,000.00, a reproduction of the ancient Greek Parthenon.
Here the various fraternal orders and fraternal benefit societies who
co-operate in its erection may have separate apartments, in which the
members of their respective orders or societies may receive and enter-
tain their friends and brothers; also an infirmary for the sick and dis-
abled and a reading-room and library, all free of charge. No profit, as
I understand it, is to accrue to the Association or to any member of it,
but it is to be an exemplification of the spirit of Fraternity, which has
so rapidly increased during the last decade. I am advised that all the
members of the Board of Directors are gentlemen of high character and
Masons.”
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The condition of the Craft is reported to be satisfactory.
The Grand Master says:
“ It affords me much pleasure to be able to report that Masonry is
in a flourishing condition throughout the entire State. In our Subordi-
nate Lodges more work has been done than for years, the net gain for
the year being 1,337, but our progress has been marked not onl}- by
gains in membership, but by a general dissemination of Masonic light
and knowledge among the Craft. This, I think, is largely due to the
improvement in the ritualistic work, causing the officers and members
to take an increased interest in their lodges. The Grand Lodge is to
be congratulated on its present efficient corps of District Lecturers,
who, by their diligent and patient labors, have so largely assisted in
raising the standard of ritualistic work throughout this jurisdiction.”
In the Masonic Home “there are on the list 129 inmates,
55 girls, 32 boys, 21 old ladies and 21 old gentlemen,” with
ample provision for their care and maintenance. The Super-
intendent says:
“ Of the young people and children, some two or three are visiting,
with the probability of adoption or a permanent position; several have
good positions in the business houses of the city; five are in the High
School, and all the rest in the ward school or kindergarten, excepting
some half dozen, who are too young even for the latter.
“ The record of the past school year was remarkable. Every one,
without exception, was passed to a higher grade; five received 100 in
deportment, and almost all won honor in character and scholarship.
“ The health of the family has been exceptional^7 good, and in this,
as well as all else, the blessing of God has been manifest throughout
the year.”
From the Grand Secretary’s Recapitulation it is found
that there are 562 lodges, having a total membership of
34,707-
One hundred and sixty pages, or about a third of the
volume, is devoted to the Report on Correspondence. Forty-
seven Grand Jurisdictions are reviewed and North Carolina
for 1901 is one of them. This is the twenty-fourth report
of this kind by Bro. John D. Vincil and gives evidence of
ability and the skill which comes of experience. For kind
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personal reference Brother Vincil has placed us under obli-
gation. We are sorry that Brother Vincil is not in harmony
with Grand Lodge on the subject of physical qualifications.
Joseph C. Finagin, M. IV. Grand Master.
John D. Vincil, R. W. Grand Secretary.
HE likeness of the outgoing Grand Master, Theo. Brant-
ly, occupies the fly-leaf of the volume, and facing it a
short biography signed “ C. H.,” which it is supposed indi-
cates Bro. Cornelius Hedges, the Grand Secretary.
Two Special Communications of Grand Lodge were
held for the burial of Past Grand Master W. T. Boardman
and the laying of the corner stone of a Training School
erected by the Methodist Church, respectively.
The Grand Secretary is again pleased to report that
every lodge has made returns and paid dues up to date.
The opening of the Grand Master’s address is devoted
to the consideration of the anarchistic tendencies which could
prompt a native American to take the life of so blameless a
man as President McKinley, and expresses the belief that
the remedy. for this evil is to be found in the practice of the
Masonic virtues of prudence, temperance and justice. In
this connection he pays a high tribute to the civic and do-
mestic virtues of the murdered President.
He reports having taken the authority of forwarding
$50 of Grand Lodge funds to the fire sufferers of Jackson-
ville, Florida, and as a matter of course Grand Lodge ap-
proved the prompt action.
Two dispensations for the formation of new lodges were
issued; the dissolution of the Gran Dieta is announced, and
a few visitations reported.
Six decisions were rendered and met with approval of
the Law Committee and Grand Lodge.
MONTANA-1901.
37TH Annual.
Helena.
September 18.
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The establishment of a Masonic Home is deemed essen-
tial to the dignity of Grand Lodge and to the needs of the
indigent brethren now in the jurisdiction and to be expected
in the future, as well as of the destitute widows and helpless
orphans which are yet to come. The Committee appointed
last year to receive bids for sites was directed also to recom-
mend a site and a plan of construction, at this session. The
Committee, on looking at the magnitude of the work and
its cost, neither selected a site nor submitted a plan, but in-
stead asked to be discharged. The enterprise is not, how-
ever, abandoned, and the Home Fund has grown to the
handsome sum of $13,466.97, with a prospect of steady in-
crease from gifts and Grand Lodge assessments.
On the recommendation of the Correspondence Com-
mittee the Grand Lodges of Western Australia and the Val-
ley of Mexico were duly recognized.
After the installation of Grand Master-elect George T.
Slack, he was presented with the Signet Ring in a very
graceful and appropriate speech by his predecessor in the
Grand East.
There are forty-seven lodges, with a total membership
of 3,325, a net gain of 181.
The delightful Report on Correspondence, the thirty-
first from his pen and to us fully as attractive as those which
preceded it, is of course the product of the mind, heart and
hand of Brother Hedges. His notice of the North Carolina
transactions for 1901 is thoroughly fraternal, and his kind
approval of our work is gratifying.
Touching our comments on the haste in building Homes
which has become manifest in recent years, Brother Hedges
makes this reply:
“ But we were rather surprised at the terms in which he referred
to Masonic Homes, for that of North Carolina is one of the oldest and
most successful. It matters little whether it is called a Home or Asylum.
In neither case is it a fad, but it represents most appropriately the best
spirit and aim of the Masonic institution. A large proportion of Ma-
sonic Temples are failures, but we have to hear of the first failure
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among the Homes. They cannot fail for they bear fruit every day in
the year. They make good citizens of the orphans and furnish a rest-
ing place to those weary from the journey of life. We hope these
Homes will multiply till there is no occasion anywhere for poor houses.
This age is peculiarly distinguished for making fortunes out of waste.
The same is true of humanity. Good, useful citizens are being made
out of what would in all probability drift into idleness, vice and crime.”
We are not opposed in any sense to the multiplication of
Masonic charities, or even to the building of palatial quar-
ters for the poor of our household, but it does not seem wise
to expend such large sums for buildings, grounds, mainte-
nance and administration, which if invested would furnish
money enough to keep all these old men and women in com-
fort amongst their relatives and friends.
There are, to our mind, very strong reasons for building
and maintaining Homes for orphan boys and girls, and fitting
them for useful vocations, but the same reasons are not ap-
plicable to old people of either sex. You can’t safely trans-
plant an old tree, Brother Hedges, and maintain its vigor.
After talking the matter over, you will find that we differ
but little, if at all.
George T. Slack, M. IV. Grand Master.
Cornelius Hedges, R. W. Grand Secretary.
NEBRASKA— 1901.
44TH Annual. Omaha. June 5, 6, 7.
THE portrait of Grand Master Albert W. Crites adorns the
volume, which is, as usual, a very handsome one.
Just after the opening of Grand Lodge, Past Grand
Master George W. Lininger presented 11 a crown chair” for
the Grand East. Of this quest for a chair, let him speak
for himself:
“ Soon after the last meeting of this Grand bodge I left this country
and for ten months traveled through Europe and the Orient, arriving
in Omaha a week ago. The past three months I rushed through Europe
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in order that I might be with you at the meeting of this Grand Lodge.
Since my departure last summer I have visited many countries, king-
doms, and empires; I also visited many palaces and throne rooms; in
fact in the course of our travels through Europe, Persia and Egypt,
palaces and churches afforded our chief attraction. Ill each of these
palaces there is a throne room with a throne chair, which has descended
from generation to generation.”
“I rummaged through the antiquity shops of Europe, and even
Palestine and Egypt, and as has been said, I even desecrated the graves
and carried off some mummies; but bandits and thieves had preceded
me at Jerusalem, and I was not able to find a chair there.”
“ I then passed from Palestine to Egypt, and in rummaging through
the temples I found no chairs there. I passed over into Italy, and in
searching through the antiquity shops I found this chair, and thought
it would be the most suitable remembrance I could find for this Grand
Lodge, so that our Grand Masters might preside in it for generations
to come. It is an exact reproduction of the chair taken from Fresco-
baldi Palace, Italy, and belonged to an old Florentine family of the
sixteenth century, and has their coat of arms embroidered in the back.
I could not obtain the original chair as it had been sold to the Berlin
museum for a large sum of money.”
The Grand Master’s address is a full report of his offi-
cial acts for the year and covers the usual topics of these
papers. Functions of corner-stone laying and dedication of
Masonic Halls are reported.
Dispensations for the formation of four new lodges were
granted.
A prohibition to the two lodges at Lincoln to aid in the
furtherance of a Masonic Fair, in which there was raffling,
was obeyed technically, but practically all the members of
both lodges gave every possible encouragement to the enter-
prise and thus disobeyed the spirit and purpose of the in-
junction. Grand Lodge, sustained the action of the Grand
Master, reprimanded the lodges and threatened prompt dis-
cipline for any like conduct in the future.
There were thirty decisions and nearly all were approved.
Of the four disapproved here is one that seems queer:
“ While the Grand Lods<e is in actual session, none of our constit-
uent lodges may hold either a stated or called communication, for at
least two reasons. The law requires, and therefore presumes, the
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Master and Wardens to be in attendance upon the Grand Lodge. While
the Grand Lodge is in session, it absorbs all the powers and functions
of its subordinates.”
The Grand Master’s vocabulary is made the subject of
revision by the Jurisprudence Committee, which says that
“subordinate” and not “constituent” shall be dsecriptive
of the lodges under the obedience of the Grand Lodge of
Nebraska. Either appellation it seems should answer fairly
well, but there may be more than the difference twixt twee-
dledum and twedledee.
The Grand Lodges of Western Australia, Cuba and
Costa Rica were duly recognized as Sovereign Masonic
Bodies.
The funds of Grand Lodge are ample and well guarded.
The Educational Fund now amounts to $34,327.06.
The Annual Oration was delivered by Bro. Charles S.
Lobingier and received the thanks of Grand Lodge. The
bibliography, or works consulted in the preparation of this
paper, covers one entire page of this volume. The Grand
Orator thus outlines his theme :
“ I have chosen as the subject of this address a chapter in the
Masonic annals, which, if less picturesque, is at least nearer to us. It is
a chapter in which we emerge from the dim shadow of tradition and
stand in the broad daylight of authentic history — a chapter, too, which
has been long neglected by the chroniclers of the craft and one whose
perusal should fill every Mason with pride and every patriot with grati-
tude. I refer to the chapter which records the part played by Free-
masons in the American Revolution. Follow with me the shifting scenes
of that historic struggle as they reveal the deeds and services of our
eighteenth century brethren (I) in the lodge room (II) on the field of
battle (III) in the councils of state, and (IV) at the courts of Europe.”
The evening session of the second day was enlivened
by the address of Past Grand Master George W. Lininger, in
which he gave an interesting account of his travels in Europe
and the East. As the Representative of the Grand Lodge of
England near the Grand Lodge of Nebraska, he honored the
occasion by appearing in good form, the which he describes
in the opening paragraph :
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“ First, I wish to say that I am here in the capacity of representa-
tive of the Grand Lodge of England, wearing the uniform clothing that
is worn by the Masons of our Mother Grand Lodge. Every brother who
attends the lodge in England today, goes there with his apron and
jewels according to his rank; if an officer, he wears the collar or badge,
with the jewel of his office suspended over the breast. The costume of
the Mason abroad, is evening dress, with white gloves, apron, collar,
and jewels. In behalf of the Grand Lodge of England I desire to ex-
tend my heartfelt thanks for this kind reception you have tendered
me. I know that when I make my report to the Grand Lodge of the
doings of this Grand Body it will be pleased to know that its represent-
ative has been treated so courteously by the brethren of the Grand
Lodge of Nebraska.”
The number of lodges is 236, the membership 12,767.
The Report on Correspondence is from the pen of Past
Grand Master Charles J. Phelps, who devotes ninety-one
pages of very fine print to the review of such transactions
as had been received. North Carolina for 1900 is fraternally
considered, but the the typographical arrangement of our
report is no more satisfactory to Brother Phelps than to
many other reporters, ourself included. The printer’s work
in the report for 1901 will, we think, please Brother Phelps.
We are very much pleased with this work of our Orphan
Asylum.
Robert E. Evans, M. IV. Grand Master.
Francis E. White, R. W. Grand Secretary.
NEVADA— 1901.
37TH Annual. Carson City. June ii.
THE address of the Grand Master, Joseph A. Miller, does
not occupy much space but is a full accounting of his
management of Grand Lodge affairs, and exhibits sound
judgment and business sense. It seems to us the brethren
ought to have kept him in the East another year.
The decisions of the Grand Master were approved by
the Jurisprudence Comrhittee and by Grand Lodge. The
condition of the Craft is thus reported;
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“ The returns of Constituent Lodges will show that a fair amount
of work has been done and that the membership of the Jurisdiction
has been increased. Although this increase is not large, it is neverthe-
less a substantial one and very gratifying considering the small popu-
lation of the Jurisdiction, and it shows that our beloved Order still has
a place in the hearts and affections of our citizens.”
The Finance Committee reported the accounts of the
Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer to be correct and the
cash balance to be $1,205.56, nearly enough to meet the esti-
mated expenses of Grand Lodge during the ensuing year.
The Grand Master’s reply to the Grand Lodge of Switz-
erland as to the establishment of an International Office
was adopted by Grand Lodge as its answer to the proposi-
tion. The letter is as follows:
“Right Worshipful Brother: — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of
one copy each of the report and circular in re the establishment of an
International Office for Masonic relations. In reply thereto I have to
say, that I fully recognize the beneficial results of united effort. Never-
theless I am of the opinion that the Grand Lodge of Nevada will not
give its assent to the proposition of an International Office. Neither
would it take part by correspondence or by delegate in the proposed
Congress, should such correspondence or part bring this Grand Lodge
in fraternal Masonic intercourse with the Grand Lodge of Hamburg,
while it continues its unlawful and reprehensible invasion of the juris-
dictional rights of the Grand Lodge of New York; and with the Grand
Orient of France in its unlawful invasion of the jurisdictional rights of
the Grand Lodge of Louisiana, and in its violation of an ancient Land-
mark of our Order, in ceasing to require of its candidates a belief in God.
I shall, however, take pleasure in submitting the report to the Grand
Lodge at our next Annual Communication, for its consideration.
“ In view of the foregoing I deem it unnecessary to answer in de-
tail the several questions propounded.
Fraternally yours,
Joseph A. Milder,
Grand Master Nevada.”
The Committee on Correspondence made the following
report on Mexican Masonry and the same was adopted:
“ Your Committee have had under consideration the communica-
tion of La Gran Dieta Symbolica of Mexico, stating that on the 30th of
April, 1901, this Grand Body ended its labors, ceased to exist, and the
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powers heretofore exercised by it were delegated to three Grand Lodges
named in the communication, and recommending fraternal relations
with the Grand Lodges named. Your Committee has also had under
consideration the application of one of these Grand Lodges, viz: Grand
Lodge A. F. and A. M., ‘Valle de Mexico,’ requesting the establishment
of fraternal relations. In view of the above, your Committee would
recommend that this Grand Lodge, having recognized La Gran Dieta
Symbolica and exchanged Grand Representatives, declare that since
the 30th of April, 1901, all acts previously in force with that Grand
Jurisdiction, are hereby rescinded.
“ As to the recognition of the Grand Lodge of ‘Valle de Mexico,’
the only one of the Grand Lodges requesting recognition, your Com-
mittee would recommend that no action be taken at this time and the
matter be referred to the Committee on Correspondence for report at
next Annual Communication
Fraternally submitted,
A. D. Bird,
G. A. Macpherson,
C. N. Noteware,
Committee .”
The Masons of Nevada are making it uncomfortable for
liquor dealers, and the prospect is that in a short time this
class will be excluded from making application to any lodge
in the jurisdiction.
The number of working lodges is twenty, and the mem-
bership 885, a gain of twenty-seven.
The Report on Correspondence, 180 pages, is the work
of Bro. E. D. Vanderlieth, and is in direct contrast with the
brief report of last year. This effort of Brother Vander-
lieth indicates aptitude for this line of work and we should
have been glad to know that he had a permanent seat at the
reporters’ table. He has given the Proceedings of North
Carolina for two years, 1900 and 1901, ample space and
kindly criticism, and he has placed us under obligation for
pleasant personal reference.
Geo. A. Morgan, M. W. Grand Master.
Chauncey N. Noteware, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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NEW BRUNSWICK-1900.
33RD Annual. St. John. August 28.
7\ FULL length portrait of Judge James Gordon Forbes,
'* clothed in the regalia of his work, adorns the fly-leaf
of the volume.
Among the diplomats is found the name of Bro. Archi-
bald Bauer, the Representative of North Carolina.
The condition of the Craft is thus stated :
“ I am gratified to announce the continued welfare of the Craft in
this jurisdiction, a very respectable increase in numbers and income,
whilst the standards of Freemasonry have been held aloft, and the
moral and spiritual teachings of our ritual have been impressed on all
who have entered our gates with zealous faithfulness.”
Appropriate and tender reference is made to those who
are not.
The Grand Master journeyed extensively over the juris-
diction, and it was his purpose to visit every constituent lodge
and would have done so but for the reasons which he assigns :
“Severe and prolonged illness in my family prevented me com-
pleting what I hoped to accomplish during the year: to officially visit
every Lodge in the jurisdiction; and I desire here to thankfully
acknowledge the kind sympathy of the Brethren amidst the gloom and
fear which darkened my home. Your fraternal consideration has im-
pressed on my mind that you practice not theoretically but practically
the noble tenets of our profession.
“ May I urge on my successor in this high and important position
to which your suffrages have elevated me and which I have so inade-
quately filled for the past year, the necessity of visiting every Lodge
within the jurisdiction. Let me assure him he will perform a delight-
ful duty which will enrich him with new friendships and strengthen
and endear the old. The benefits and results are by no means the
Craft’s, they will assuredly be his own.”
The suspensions for non-payment of dues add largely
to the ranks of the non-affiliates, and the evil gives Grand
Lodge food for serious consideration, but no efficient method
of treatment has yet been found.
The lodg'es number thirty-two and the membership 1,817.
Hon. James G. Forbes, M. W. Grand Master.
J. Twining Hartt, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE— 1901.
112TH Annual. Concord. May 15.
THE portrait of Grand Master George I. McAllister forms
the frontispiece, and further back in the volume are
found portraits of four deceased brethren who were promi-
nent in the Fraternity.
At the Semi-annual Communication at Manchester on
Dec. 27, 1900, there were present the Grand Lodge Officers,
a long list of Past Grand Officers and a representation of
sixty-seven Subordinate Lodges. This meeting is held for
the exemplification of the work of the three degrees. The
officers of Prospect Lodge, No. 69, conducted the work of
the first degree by initiating a duly elected candidate.
The officers of Grand Lodge opened a Fellow Craft
Lodge and passed an Entered Apprentice in due form.
The work of the third degree was done by the officers
of Washington Lodge, No. 61.
As to this work, we make this extract from the minutes,
as showing the care devoted to it :
“ The exemplification of the ritual of the several degrees was close-
ly followed by Right Worshipful Bro. Herbert E. Richardson, Grand
Lecturer for the state, who called the attention of the brethren to the
mistakes that had been made, answered questions in regard to the work,
and made such suggestions as he deemed necessary.”
A Special Communication was held Feb. 16, 1901, for
the purpose of attending the funeral services of Right Wor-
shipful Bro. Bradford Sumner Kingman, Deputy Grand
Master; and another on March 4, 1901, for the purpose of
dedicating the hall of Doric Lodge, No. 78, at Tilton.
At the Annual Communication the Grand Master offered
appropriate tribute to the memory of the Masonic dead.
Upon notification of the suffering and want among the
Craft in Jacksonville, Florida, after the great fire, the Grand
Master telegraphed $200 to the Grand Secretary of the
Grand Lodge of Florida, and his brethren in Grand Lodge
commended him for the prompt action.
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The brethren of New Hampshire are working toward
the erection of “A Masonic Home,” and there is little doubt
that before many years their efforts will be rewarded by the
construction and maintenance of as handsome buildings as
can be shown by any of their neighbors, the New York
Palace of course excepted. In reference to this enterprise
Brother McAllister says in part :
“ By an act of the Legislature, the name of our charitable institu-
tion was changed from ‘ The Masonic Orphans Home ’ to 1 Masonic
Home ’ last winter. The object of this institution is to ‘ provide and
sustain a home for destitute Freemasons and destitute widows and or-
phans of Freemasons of the State of New Hampshire.’ A splendid lot
of land, containing 56,762 square feet, conveniently located with refer-
ence to schools, churches and electric railway, in the city of Manches-
ter, has been purchased and the price for the same, with interest there-
on amounting to $3, 194.95, has been paid with money contributed by
the Masons of Manchester and is now worth more than $5,000.”
The Grand Lodges of Costa Rica and Western Australia
were duly recognized as regular and independent Masonic
Bodies.
The rulings of the Grand Master were approved by the
Jurisprudence Committee and by the Grand Lodge.
As showing the influence of Freemasonry in New Hamp-
shire, we quote from the Grand Master’s “conclusion”:
“Brethren, we have just crossed the threshold of the twentieth
century. It is our good fortune to look out upon a more intelligent,
liberal and progressive world than that which greeted the vision of our
brothers in 1736, when St. John’s Lodge, No. 1, was constituted at
Portsmouth.
“ The institution established at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern in Bos-
ton, Mass., by Most Worshipful Bro. Henry Price, Right Worshipful
Bro. Andrew Belcher, and other craftsmen, has been a mighty factor in
the great work of broadening and elevating human character, inculcat-
ing patriotism, encouraging the practice of charity, educating the peo-
ple, and in advancing civilization. She has taught her members that
truth is the foundation of good citizenship; instructed them to obey the
laws and be loyal to the Republic, been the enemy of fraud, vice and
intemperance, and the friend of law, good society and correct habits;
met and conquered her religious and political adversaries in a memo-
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rable battle, proved that her principles, founded upon the bedrock of
truth, are sound and enduring, and has done a grand and beneficent
work for humanity. Her achievements are great. Her recor dis hon-
orable.”
The number of lodges on the roll is seventy-eight, and
the membership is 9,387, a net gain of only eighteen, but
an average lodge membership of 120. There are three
lodges having a membership respectively of twenty-one,
twenty-five and thirty-eight, and all the others range from
sixty-five to 196. This numerical strength of the particular
lodges, coupled with the careful instruction and oversight
given by the Grand Officers, will easily account for the pros-
perity of the Craft in the State.
The Report on Correspondence, a review of the Pro-
ceedings of fifty-four Grand Lodges, some of them for two
years, is again the work of Right Worshipful Bro. A. S.
Wait, and the more we see of this kind of work the greater
our respect for the learning, moderation and modesty of our
good brother. North Carolina for 1900 receives fraternal
notice from Brother Wait.
Henry B. Quinby, M. W. Grand Master.
Frank D. Woodbury, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
HREE Special Communications were held, the most inter-
esting being that at the Masonic Home on Tuesday,
Dec. 11, 1900, for the purpose of dedicating the infirmary
which was presented to the Home by Bro. Henry M. Dore-
mus in memory of his son, Bro. Nelson B. Doremus.
From the address of Rev. Bro. A. Edwin Keigwin on
the occasion we clip these opening paragraphs:
“ There is, that fastens its eyes upon the past; that spends its time
in deciphering disfigured epitaphs; that dwells among the tombs: its
name is Historic Masonry. There is, that fastens its eye upon the beau-
NEW JERSEY— 1901.
114TH Annual.
Trenton.
January 23.
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tiful; that dips its brushes in the rainbow and mixes its colors upon
the sky: its name is ^Esthetic Masonry.
“ There is, that fastens its eye upon the needy; that reaches forth
its hands of sympathy to the afflicted and oppressed; that hews down
the forest that the poor may have a home; that rends the mountains
that the sick may find a shelter; that gathers up its sunbeams and sows
them in the gloom: its name is Sympathetic Masonry.
“ Historic, ^Esthetic and Sympathetic Masonry go up to the temple
to pray. History is absorbed in memories of the past; ^Esthetics sees
only the gate beautiful, but Sympathy stoops to assist the lame man at
the gate.”
In his Annual Address of nearly forty pages Grand
Master Joseph E. Moore gave a full account of his steward-
ship for the year. The death of Queen Victoria is referred
to as a source of profound sorrow, and the Masonic dead in
his own and other jurisdictions is reported at length.
The Galveston horror appealed to the generosity of the
Craft in New Jersey, and in reply to the call of the Grand
Master the lodges contributed the large sum of $4,600, of
which $3,000 was forwarded to the Texas sufferers. Surely
a noble response to the cry of distress!
The Fraternity of New Jersey is not yet satisfied as to
the attitude of the Grand Lodge of the State of Washington
on the subject of Clandestine Masonry and declines the
resumption of former intimate relations until there is no
further ambiguity as to the status of the latter.
The dispensations and decisions of the Grand Master
were entirely approved by the Jurisprudence Committee and
by Grand Lodge.
The request for fraternal recognition by the Grand
Lodge of Costa Rica as a Sovereign Grand Lodge was granted
and an exchange of Representatives recommended.
On the recommendation of the Correspondence Com-
mittee the Grand Lodge decided to take no action upon the
request of the Grand Lodge of Western Australia, for the
present.
The subject of physical qualifications is referred to by
the Grand Master, but no notice of the subject was taken by
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Grand Lodge. If this was the New Jersey doctrine which was
enunciated by Brother Moore there can be no objection to
that part which says the candidate must be able to “conform
literally to the requirement of our forms, ceremonies and
laws,” but not many will go all the way with him in his esti-
mate of its importance as compared with the higher qualifi-
cations. He says:
“ While the moral, mental and social qualifications of material for
Masonic privileges should always be closely scrutinized, and such scru-
tiny should be and is the paramount duty of the investigating commit-
tee, of equal importance is the physical competency of the petitioner
to conform literally to the requirement of our forms, ceremonies and
laws. ”
The Grand Master regrets that there should be occasional
violations of law requiring the imposition of discipline, but
expresses the belief that most of these cases grow out of the
ignorance of the offenders.
The Masonic Home is a success, and is growing in the
good will of the Fraternity. It has already received some be-
quests, and will probably soon receive more aid of this kind.
The per capita cost of maintenance is reported by the
Committee on Home to be $288.40, but it is hoped this will
be reduced.
The Committee in closing its report says:
“ In conclusion, your committee can only say that to them it has
been and is a great privilege to have been your instruments in the
establishment and administration of so truly a Masonic work, where
our obligations as Masons can be so completely fulfilled. We should
and do all join in thanksgiving to our Great Grand Master, who has put
it into the hearts of the brethren to undertake so noble a work. Breth-
ren—you who have not visited the 'Home’ — you do not know what you
have wrought. We pray you to visit your work, the work of your
hands and your hearts, with a perfect confidence that a sight of your
beautiful ‘Home’ and the happy family that it contains will do you
good and will fill you with the same enthusiasm for its maintenance and
welfare as fills the heart of every brother who has visited it.”
The number of lodges is 174, and the membership
l8, TOO.
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The Report on Correspondence is a review of the trans-
actions of fifty-eight Grand Lodges and occupies 173 pages
of the volume. North Carolina’s Proceedings for 1900 re-
ceive very fraternal notice from Bro. Chas. Belcher, who
again does the work at the Round Table in a manner credit-
able to himself and to his Grand Lodge.
Joseph E. Moore, M. IV. Grand Master.
Thos. H. R. Redway, R. W. Grand Secretary.
NEW SOUTH WALES.
June 1900 to June 1901.
I- HIS volume has the portrait of the Grand Master, Bro.
■ J. C. Remington, now in the third year of service, and
a cut of the Masonic Hall in Sydney.
Two Quarterly Communications were held Sept. 12, and
Dec. 12, 1900; and two others in March and June, 1901.
The Grand Lodges of Cuba and Porto Rico were duly
acknowledged as Sovereign Grand Bodies and an exchange
of Representatives ordered to be made.
Official visits in New South Wales make demands upon
the time of the Grand Master, as may be seen from this brief
quotation from his address:
“ O11 the 25th October, accompanied by Very Worshipful Bro. W. J.
Scott (Grand Treasurer), and Worshipful Brother Toomey (Deputy
Grand Secretary), I left Sydney for the longest tour I have yet made
as Grand Master. It occupied a fortnight, and involved almost inces-
sant traveling, in all 1,200 miles, by railway, road, and steamer. But
the results were such as fully to compensate for any inconvenience or
fatigue.”
The results of the Grand Master’s presence are reported
by Bro. W. H. Shortland, Grand Inspector of Workings, to
have been very profitable. He says:
“ He has left a most favorable impression everywhere, and his ad-
dresses and genial manner have won golden opinions, they will be
productive in bringing in a number of unaffiliated brethren.”
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The disbursements from the Benevolent Fund amounted
to ^1160.16.6 fortheyear. The Freemasons’ Orphan Society
took care of fifteen boys and girls, children of deceased
Masons, by contributing every six months in advance $65
to each of these orphans. Besides these active charities,
The Freemasons’ Benevolent Institution carries thirty-four
indigent aged brethren on its lists, to whom regular annui-
ties are paid.
This is an inspiring record of the benefactions of the
Craft of New South Wales. This is the way they dispense
these charities :
“At other times the Institution does its work so quietlj7 that not
even the members themselves know who are the brethren benefited by
its labours; that is as it should be. I noticed in the report of another
Masonic charitable Institution not long ago that all the unfortunate
people in receipt of benefits had their names published, not only for
the information of the Craft, but that the whole world might read them.
I say God forbid that we should do anything of that sort. (Applause.)
It is hard enough for old people to come and ask for assistance in their
declining days, without the fact being known all over the world. Dur-
ing my visits to lodges throughout our State recently, I was delighted
to find that while members paid all sorts of respect to the Grand Lodge,
the Grand Master, and the Grand Lodge representatives, yet this Benev-
olent Institution was the one that seemed to evoke their particular
interest. There wTas not a single place I visited, even so far remote as
the northern rivers, where the Institution was unknown, and one of
the brightest ornaments at one of the lodge meetings was an old
brother, one of our annuitants, who managed to get there so that he
might see the Grand Master. He had never seen one before, and I can
only hope he was not disappointed. (Laughter.) That old brother
would have been in a very bad way indeed but for the work this Insti-
tution has done, and the help it afforded him.’’
The number of lodges is 185, and the total membership
8, 186.
The personnel of the Committee on Correspondence has
undergone some change since last year, and is now composed
of Bros. Herbert S Thompson, chairman, W. H. Short-
land, H. Palmer, Claude Manning, and T. L. Rowbotham.
We find, however, the familiar initials' “ J. B. T.” subscribed
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to several of the reviews, and there is evidence that his pen
has lost none -of its force. The report is condensed into
eighty-seven pages, and all the members of the Committee
have contributed to its preparation except Brother Row-
botham.
We regret that the Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of
North Carolina for 1900 and 1901 failed to reach the hands
of the Committee.
John C. Remington, M. IV. Grand Master.
Arthur H. Bray, V. IV. Grand Secretary.
NEW YORK— 1901.
120TH Annual. New York. May 7.
ON the second cover-page and on the fly-leaf are found
line engraved portraits, the one of Grand Master Chas-
W. Mead and the other of Gen. (?) Morgan Lewis, Grand
Master of New York from 1830 to 1843, and who rendered
distinguished service to his country in the War of 1812 with
Great Britain.
The address of the Grand Master, after an eloquent
exordium, covers every item of interest to the Craft in this
great jurisdiction. His tributes to deceased Masons, promi-
nent in every walk of life, makes very interesting reading
and shows that a large number of the most eminent citizens
who have died within the year were also prominent Masons.
The, foreign relations are reported to be cordial and fra-
ternal. The recommendation of the Grand Master contained
in the following paragraph was adopted:
“ Our status with the Grand bodge of Washington remains un-
changed. We indulged the hope that at its last Annual Communica-
tion it would take such action in the- restoration of its edict of non-in-
tercourse with the Grand Lodge of Hamburg, and recall of the objec-
tionable resolutions relating to the subject of Masonry among the
negroes in America, as should evidence its full recognition of the terri-
torial sovereignty of the Grand Lodges; but our hope was in vain. In
view of the attitude of the Grand Lodge of Washington toward the
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Grand Lodge of New York, I cordially recommend that full authority
be given to the incoming Grand Master to take such action as he may
deem necessary in respect thereto, or in respect to any action that may
in the future be taken by that Grand Body in this matter.”
Action was deferred upon the request of the Grand
Lodge of Western Australia for fraternal recognition, for
the reason that there were yet in the Colony quite a num-
ber of lodges not ready to transfer their allegiance to the
young Grand Lodge.
The Grand Lodge of Costa Rica was recognized as a
regular Masonic Body.
This is the satisfying exhibit of the State of the Craft
made by the Grand Master:
“ From the Grand Secretary’s report we learn that we bear upon
the roll of the Grand Lodge seven hundred and fifty Lodges, with an
aggregate membership, Dec. 31, igoo, of 106,235 in good standing, a net
gain of 4,687 members during the year, an unprecedented annual in-
crease; that the Grand Secretary has received for the year ending Dec.
31, 1900, the sum of $82,915.70, and has paid the same to the Grand
Treasurer, an increase over the receipts of the previous year of $4,846.18.
“ From the Grand Treasurer’s report you will note he has disbursed
for the year ending April 15, 1901, the sum of $80,144.20, leaving a
balance in the treasury of the Grand Lodge of $54,274.72 on that date.
“ The report of the Trustees of the Permanent Fund shows an in-
crease in that fund of $13,376.50, which now amounts in the aggregate
to the sum of $103,690.90.
“ From the report of the Trustees of the Masonic Hall and Asylum
Fund it appears that the balance in the General Fund, March 31, 1901,
was $9,885.44 as against a balance in that fund at the last report of
$9,799.42; and that the Reserve Fund has been increased by interest
and bequests in the sum of $9,946.38, and amounts in the aggregate to
the sum of $215,022.43.”
The amount contributed to the relief of the Galveston
sufferers was the handsome sum of $10,274.08.
Of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Home, the
Grand Master has this commendation to offer:
“ The grateful thanks of the Fraternity are due to these devoted
brethren, giving their time unstintedly to the discharge of the duties
of the important trust committed to them, bringing to the administra-
tion of their charge a just appreciation of the confidence which the
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Craft reposed in them, and of the responsibilities of their station, and
the ripeness and maturity of judgment, the keen business acumen, and
that breadth of executive ability which characterize the successful man
of affairs.
THE HOME.
“ Nothing is wanting in the superb superintendence of Most Wor-
shipful Brother Anthony. The highest expectations and desires of the
brethren have been realized, and it is what the world regards it, a model
Home. While our Most Worshipful Brother enjoys high distinction
for his Masonic erudition, and his scholarly accomplishments as the
chairman of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence, his greatest
achievement, and that which will be an enduring monument, is his
work in the Home.
“ The heart of the whole Craft went out to him in tenderest sym-
pathy, when the darkness of the greatest bereavement that can come
to a man fell upon him in the death of his most estimable wife.”
The report of the Superintendent of the Home fur-
nishes an interesting account of the management and pres-
ent condition of this magnificent institution. This extract
is taken from the close of the report :
“ The average for the past year equals 241.4 inmates.
“ The current expenses of the Home — embracing maintenance, re-
pairs, farm and barn expenses — are $45,850.63. Showing a per capita
cost of $189.93 for the year.
“ We do not enter into any discussion in regard to the comparative
cost with preceding years, for no comparison could be strictly equit-
able; each year must stand by itself. It may be mentioned that the
increased cost of coal and some other commodities, with some extra-
ordinary expenditures, are factors of importance. As it is — governed
by judicious economy — we submit the record.”
The Report on Correspondence is by Brother Anthony
and as usual is the most comprehensive of its kind and con-
tains information in compact form not otherwise accessible
to the general Masonic reader. North Carolina for 1900
receives kindly notice, as do the other American Grand
Lodges except Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota, Ten-
nessee and New Mexico, which failed to put in an appearance
in time.
Chas. W. Mead, M. W. Grand Master.
Edward L. M. Ehlers, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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NEW ZEALAND— 1900.
THE Annual Communication of Grand Lodge was held in
Auckland, on Thursday, April 26th.
The report of the Board of Benevolence shows that the
following grants were made:
£ s. d
“ To a Brother of Lodge No. 116 10 o o
To a Brother of Lodge No. 23 10 o o
To a Widow of Lodge No. 62 5 5 o
To a Brother of Lodge No. 65 20 o o
To the Heighten Trustees ----- - - 15 o o
£60 5 o
To a Widow under the E. C - - - 29 o o
A80 5 o
Amounts granted during the first half of the
year 37 15 »
Total for the year ending March 31, 1900.... ^118 o o”
The report of the Board of General Purposes gives the
amount to the credit of the various funds as follows :
. £ s. d.
“ General Fund 1083 3 4
Fund of Benevolence 2020 5 11
Masonic Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund. .. 719 11 9
Aged and Indigent Masons’ Fund 217 3 11
/4040 4 11 ”
Much time was spent in the discussion of that part of
the report of the Board of General Purposes, brought over
from the Semi-annual of October, 1899, relating to the “Desig-
nation of Grand Superintendents. ” As to the name to be
applied to these officers in future, whether “District Deputy
Grand Master” or “ Provincial Grand Master,” the majority
favored the latter appellation.
There is no uniform ritual in use by Grand Lodge, the
English, Irish, and Scotch rituals being used indifferently
according to preference of each lodge. It was decided :
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“ That the Grand Superintendents be a Committee to form a ritual,
and that the Board allocate the necessary expenses for the Committee
to meet and carry out this resolution and that the Committee report to
the Board of General Purposes within six months.”
The Grand Lodge of Western Australia was recognized.
The resignation of the Grand Secretary, Bro. William
Ronaldson, on account of increasing age, was accepted and
this resolution presented and adopted :
‘‘Right Worshipful Brother Hardy then moved: ‘That it be. a
recommendation to the Board of General Purposes to arrange for a
suitable pension for Brother Ronaldson, and that the amount be not
less than half Brother Ronaldson 's present salary.’ ”
There are seventeen Memorial pages, the first of which
is as follows:
“ In Memoriam.- — By order of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge
of A. F. and A. M. of New Zealand this page is dedicated and set apart
to the Memory of the Brethren of our blood and kindred, who died
during the past year on the field of battle in South Africa. Honour
the nation’s dead. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."
The number of lodges is 113, and the membership 5, 196.
There is no Report on Correspondence.
Russell A. Stuart, M. W. Grand Master.
Malcolm Niccol, R. W. Grand Secretary.
NEW ZEALAND— 1901.
THE Annual Communication of Grand Lodge was held at
Christchurch, April 25th and 26th, and was not largely
attended.
This extract from the report of the Board of General
Purposes on the financial condition makes a good showing:
11 The amounts to the credit of the various Funds are as follows:
£ s. d.
“ General Fund 794 x 2
Fund of Benevolence 2201 9 6
Masonic Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund 776 8 10
Aged and Indigent Masons’ Fund 242 o 6
Total £4014 o o
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“ The amount upon Fixed Deposit is now ^3700, a further sum of
^100 having been added since the close of the year’s accounts.
“ While the Balance of Assets over Liabilities is now ^5462 5s.
iod., as againstlast year ^5169 10s. nd., an increase of £2^2 14s. nd.”
The question of representation in the Grand Lodge
Communications, whether by delegates from the particular
lodges or by a few representatives from each Masonic dis-
trict, gave rise to considerable discussion and was finally re-
committed “ to the Board of General Purposes for a full re-
port at the next Communication of Grand Lodge.”
The invasion of the jurisdiction of Grand Lodge by
the Grand Lodge of Scotland gave rise to warm and extended
discussion, but no action was taken, owing to the charitable
assumption that the latter Grand Body was guiltless of doing
a sister Grand Lodge an intentional wrong, and the matter
was sent back to the Board of General Purposes.
Grand Lodge agreed to the recommendation of the
Board of General Purposes that the office of Grand Lodge
have a local habitation and that it be fixed at Wellington.
The number of lodges is 1 1 7, and the membership
5,385, a gain of three lodges and 204 in membership.
Richard J. Seddon, M. W. Grand Master.
Rev. W. Ronaldson, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
HE portrait of the present Grand Master, Edwin H.
James, and of Past Grand Master Donald Rae David-
son, deceased, adorn this volume.
Grand Master James welcomed the brethren and gave
some sound advice. Suitable tribute was paid to the Ma-
sonic dead.
Lodges chartered at the last Communication are report-
ed to have been duly constituted.
The condition of the Craft is reported to be gratifying,
with a net increase in membership since 1899 of 541.
NORTH DAKOTA— 1901.
12TH Annual.
Fargo.
June t8.
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Many dispensations were granted for public installa-
tions, for elections of officers and for conferring degrees out
of time.
The visitations were few, owing to the exactions of pri-
vate affairs.
A prompt and generous contribution of $257 was made
to aid the Masonic sufferers from the fire at Jacksonville,
Florida.
Dispensations were granted for the formation of three
new lodges, and in this connection the Grand Master argues
strongly and wisely, we believe, against the creation of
many weak lodges.
In accordance with his recommendation the Grand Lodge
changed the By-law requiring eleven Master Masons to peti-
tion for a new lodge, so as to require twenty such petitioners
in the future.
Eight decisions were rendered and six approved, one
partially approved and one disapproved. We think the
Grand Lodge was right.
From the reports of the Secretary and Treasurer and
the Finance Committee it is seen that the financial condi-
tion of the Grand Lodge is very satisfactory.
There are sixty-two chartered lodges and three under
dispensation, and a membership of 3,742.
Thomas L. Foulks, M. W. Grand Master.
Frank J. Thompson, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
NOVA SCOTIA— 1900.
35TH Annual. Halifax. June 13.
GRAND Lodge was opened with prayer by Right Wor-
shipful Bro. Rev. H. D. deBlois, the Representative
of North Carolina.
The Grand Master, T. B. Flint, as a loyal subject of the
British Crown, makes extended reference to the bloody and
unequal conflict still going on in South Africa, and says in
part :
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“ This is no place to discuss either the causes, policy or conduct of
the conflict in which our country has been engaged. But we will all
rejoice in the evidence it has afforded of the unity of the British Em-
pire, of the heroism of the British soldier, no matter from what portion
of its vast extent he may come, and of the enthusiastic loyalty of the
people of every portion of our Queen’s dominions.”
The condition of the Craft is reported satisfactory in
relation to growth, finances and that higher moral aspect
which attracts “intelligent and high-minded men.”
Upon the value of the Reports on Correspondence and
the duty of the individual Mason to acquaint himself with
their contents, Brother Flint makes these terse and forcible
statements :
“ It affords what might be termed, ‘ a bird’s eye view ’ of the vari-
ous Grand Lodges, their proceedings, and the movements taking place
in the Masonic world. It furnishes vivid portraits of the distinguished
brethren who, from time to time, are called upon, in responsible offices,
to guide the destinies of the Craft. It directs attention to the mines of
intellectual and moral wealth stored in the volumes yearly given to the
world by the various Masonic Grand Bodies. It embalms the names
and life’s story of the beloved and lost brother Masons whose efforts
for the benefit of Masonry and their fellowmen have made the memory
of their virtues holy and imperishable possessions of their surviving
brethren.”
The Grand Master’s account of the Washington Me-
morial Services is condensed, but graphic. We make this
extract :
“ During the evening, after our return to the City of Washington,
a very brilliant reception was held at Willard’s Hotel by the Grand
Master of Virginia, at which we met many brethern famous in the An-
nals of the Craft. Later the visiting Grand Masters, Past Grand Mas-
ters, and Delegates were entertained at a complimentary banquet at the
Ebbitt House. This occasion was one of rare interest. Here were
representatives of almost every Grand Lodge in America and of some
in Europe. The addresses were all brief, but marked by admirable
good taste, and the most delightful unity of feeling and brotherly spirit.
Nothing could have exceeded in cordiality the manner in which my
own remarks and those of Brother McDonald were received. As we
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concluded our brief words of regard for the memory of Washington
and our tribute of affection to our brother Masons of the United States,
greeting them on behalf of the Craft of Canada, we were thrilled by the
strains of ‘ God Save the Queen ’ and the enthusiastic demonstrations
from every brother present. It was an occasion never to be forgotten
by those who were present.”
Owing to long and frequent absences from the juris-
diction, many of the duties of the Grand Master were dis-
charged by the Deputy Grand Master, Bro. Thomas Trena-
man, whose report shows that his place was no sinecure.
The Grand Secretary’s report confirms the statement of
the Grand Master that the year has been a prosperous one.
It shows that there are sixty-three lodges, and a member-
ship of 3,512, a gain of 106.
As to the consolidation of the Maritime Provinces into
one strong Grand Lodge, which has engaged the attention
of Grand Lodge for several years past, the Committee hav-
ing the matter in hand submitted this report :
“ That very little progress has been made in this important matter.
The fact that two committees from the Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia
were in existence on this, or a somewhat similar object was found to be
awkward and tended to detract from the question this Committee was
appointed to deal with. The other committee alluded to had under
consideration the larger union of the Grand Lodges of Prince Edward
Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and it would appear that the
committee appointed by the Grand Lodge of Prince Edward Island was
appointed to consider the union pertaining to the three provinces and
did not feel like meeting officially with us. Your committee have
therefore nothing tangible to report. All of which is respectfully sub-
mitted.”
The Report on Correspondence, 133 pages, in which the
Proceedings of sixty-two Grand Lodges are reviewed, is
almost entirely the wort of Bro. T. B. Flint. North Caro-
lina for 1900 is given fraternal notice. For a man so thor-
oughly engaged in secular affairs this exacting labor shows
Brother Flint’s devotion to the Craft.
T. A. Cossmann, M. IV. Grand Master.
Hon. Wm. Ross, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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NOVA SCOTIA— 1901.
36TH Annual. Halifax. June 12.
A PORTRAIT of Brother, the Hon. William Ross, Past
Deputy Grand Master and Past Grand Secretary, occu-
pies the fly-leaf of the volume. Right Worshipful Bro. Rev.
Henry D. deBlois, Grand Chaplain, and Representative of
the Grand Lodge of North Carolina, offered the opening
prayer in Grand Lodg'e.
In the opening of his address the Grand Master gave
this interesting history of the tribulations through which
Grand Lodge had to pass before reaching its present peace-
ful condition:
“ The century just closed has been one of wonderful development
in trade and commerce, the genius of man has made possible what at
the beginning of the century was not even thought of, steam and elec-
tricity have brought all parts of the world in close connection, surely
we live in a wonderful age, and it is fitting to ask what has Freema-
sonry done for us in that century. At the beginning of it there were
but few Lodges in this jurisdiction, all but four of these have ceased
working, viz.: St. Andrew’s, No. 1, established 1768; St. John’s, No. 2,
1780; Virgin, No. 3, 1782; St. George, No. 20, 1784. The first three
have continued to meet regularly since the date of their formation, St.
George was dormant for upwards of twenty years, but resumed in 1859,
and a peculiar circumstance in this connection is worth quoting, the
same Master and Secretary who were in the respective chairs when the
Lodge ceased working, held the same offices when the Lodge resumed
work, twenty years later. The governing power then was the Provincial
Grand Lodge of England, established in 1784.
“The Grand Lodge of Scotland having chartered Lodges, a Pro-
vincial Grand Lodge of N. S., N. B., and P. E. I., was formed in 1844,
under the jurisdiction of that Grand Lodge. An attempt was made in
1862 to form an independent Grand Lodge for Nova Scotia but failed
because of the veto of the Mother Grand Lodge of England.
“ However,. in 1866, ten of the Scottish Lodges surrendered their
charters and formed an independent body, and we today are carrying
on the work so well begun by them. You will therefore see that we
had then three governing bodies, each acting independently of the other,
and that matters Masonic did not run very smoothly' is easily imagined.
When, ' through the efforts of Most Worshipful Bro. S. R. Sircom,
Grand Master; Right Worshipful Bro. C. J. Macdonald, Grand Secre-
tary'; and Right Worshipful Bro. J. R. Graham, on behalf of the Grand
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Lodge of N. S., and Right Worshipful Bros. B. Curren and Allan H.
Crowe, of the Provincial (changed in that year to District) G. L. of
England, articles of union were agreed upon, which union took place
on June 23rd, 1869, none of us who were present, can ever forget that
memorable evening.
“ The greater number of the more prominent Brethren who brought
about this happy change have departed this life, and but few of those
remaining take an active part in our deliberations today. One notable
exception is that of Most Worshipful Bro. C. J. Macdonald, whose
active interest has never ceased through all the intervening years.”
Grand Master Cossmann reported no decisions but quite
a number of special dispensations. In reporting the dead
he made appropriate and affectionate reference to the death
of Queen Victoria.
The other reports indicate that the Craft in Nova Scotia
is fairly prosperous.
The Grand Lodge of Western Australia was duly recog-
nized as a Sovereign Grand Body.
There are sixty-three lodges, and a membership of 3,574.
The Report on Correspondence is a review of the trans-
actions of sixty Grand Lodges, North Carolina for 1901 of
the number. Bro. T. B. Flint reviewed the North Carolina
Journal in his usual careful manner and gave unusual space,
three pages, to comment and quotation. F or his kind commen-
dation of our work Brother Flint places us under obligation.
Brother Mowbray, the new Grand Secretary, although
not wanting experience, struck a snag when he came to
printing the Proceedings. He says:
“ Our volume of Proceedings for this year is far too late in being
issued; the reasons given by my respected predecessor on former occa-
sions hold good in the present instance. The Report on Correspondence
is the sole cause of the delay. The Committee, Most Worshipful
Brother Flint and Right Worshipful Brother Ross, have much of their
time taken up with their parliamentary duties and matters connected
therewith, and it is almost unreasonable to expect them to devote the
time necessary for this kind of work. Brother Flint, however, reviewed
thirty-two Proceedings, Brother Ross thirteen, Bro. W. E. Thompson
two, and the Grand Secretary thirteen — sixty in all.”
Thomas Trenaman, M.D., M. IV. Grand Master.
Thomas Mowbray, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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OHIO— 1901.
92ND Annual.
Cleveland.
October 23.
GRAND Lodge was welcomed to Cleveland by the munici-
pal authorities and by the local Fraternity. Bro. Jno. J.
Sullivan delivered the address of welcome on behalf of the
Craft, and we clip this eloquent paragraph from it :
“ If I were a sculptor, I would chisel into exquisite and enduring
marble the colossal figure of a perfect woman. I would put the light
of kindness in her eyes, the smile of heaven on her lips, and the
warmth of sympathy in her cheeks. I would cut into her shining
face the sympathy of a thousand hearts, and with an artist’s touch I
would give her brow the mien and caste of Sovereign Love. In her
great, her gentle, her protecting arms, I would have her, in symbolic
figure, encircling the heavy laden of the earth, and drawing the down-
cast in tenderness on her heaving bosom. On the pedestal of that
grand symbol, I would burn in the chaste marble, in letters of living
fire, those words which have been familiar to all ages, and which now
encircle the cycles of time, ‘Freemasonry.’ ”
Two very fine portraits — one of the retiring Grand
Master and the other of Bro. William McKinley — give added
interest to this volume of Proceedings. President McKinley’s
likeness is the best we have seen in late years and must
have been taken before he went to the White House, for it
does not show the lines of care that were beginning to be
apparent before his death. The tributes to Brother McKin-
ley indicate very clearly that he was respected, honored and
loved by his brethren of Ohio and that he merited all the
eulogies they could offer to his memory.
Grand Master F. S. Harmon rendered three decisions,
which were approved as being in accord with the law of the
jurisdiction :
“ My experience has not been different from that of my predeces-
sors in number of letters of inquiry for decisions on Masonic law.
Nearly the entire number could have been answered by reference to
Code and former decisions. I have, however, tried to answer all such
inquiries by reference to specific decisions in Code, except the following:
"Held: That all business done before regular time of meeting pro-
vided for in By-laws is illegal.
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“ Held : That protest can not be filed against a Master Mason peti-
tioning on dimit. Action must be taken, and, if rejected by Lodge,
dimit returned.
“ Held : Under Rule 18, a Lodge may receive the petition of a can-
didate for the degrees in Masonry (candidate having resided in said
Lodge’s Jurisdiction one year), if three years have elapsed since said
candidate’s rejection by another Masonic Lodge.”
There were many public functions of laying corner
stones performed by the Grand Master or his proxies.
The Grand Master prayed to be relieved of the necessity
of granting special dispensations for the purpose of installing
elected officers, and reported having issued 114 of these
permits.
In response to the appeal of the Grand Master for aid
to the Jacksonville, Florida, sufferers, seven of the Districts,
through their Lecturers, contributed the sum of $441.00.
The visitations of the Grand Master were not very
numerous, but were pleasant to him and profitable to the
lodges visited.
In what seems to be an effort to reduce the number of
non-affiliates, the Committee on Charters and Dispensations
presented the following preamble and resolution, which was
adopted :
“ Whereas, This Grand Lodge recognizes with solicitude that a
few of its Subordinate Lodges manifest at times a laxity in collecting
dues from its members; and
“ Whereas, There are in this State a number of unaffiliated
Masons, some of whom exercise the right of visitation on an equal foot-
ing with those who contribute to the support of the Order; therefore,
be it
“ Resolved , That after Jan. 1, 1902, no Lodge in this Jurisdiction
shall permit any one to visit it who does not, at the time of such visit,
present a receipt for the payment of his dues for the year last passed
or a Dimit issued to him within the twelve months preceding such
visitation.”
Eagle Lodge, No. 431, of Canton, presented a petition for
the change of its name to William McKinley Lodge, No. 431,
and the prayer was granted with unanimity and enthusiasm.
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For the benefit of our North Carolina brethren we give space
to this interesting Masonic history of the President :
“William McKinley’s entrance into the Order was an incident of
the war between the States. It came near the close of the memorable
civil strife, while he was still an officer in the Federal army, with the
rank of major.
“The young officer from Ohio was stationed at Winchester, Va.,
where was located a hospital for Confederate wounded prisoners. In
making the rounds one afternoon with the regimental surgeon, Major
McKinley noticed that the doctor was on very friendly terms with
several of the Southerners, not infrequently giving them money or
tobacco. The interest of the future President was aroused, and when
the opportunity presented itself he asked the reason for this rather un-
usual cordiality. The surgeon told him that the wounded rebels were
Brother Masons, and that it was not only a duty but a pleasure to add
something to the few pleasures of hospital life. The Major met this
information with the wish to become a member of a Fraternity on
which neither prison bars nor rank of office had the slightest effect.
“ During the war the lines of jurisdiction were often forgotten.
Military Lodges and Special Convocations of Masons, called together
in a manner which would be regarded in these days as irregular and
clandestine, were frequently held. In Winchester there was a regular
Lodge of Masons, officered by Confederate soldiers or citizens on parole.
“ The desire of young McKinley was made known to the officers of
Hiram Lodge, No. 21, of Winchester, his petition was presented, and
he was elected. On the night of May 1, 1865, at 7.30 o’clock, he pre-
sented himself for initiation. J. B. T. Reed, a Confederate chaplain, was
Master of the Lodge, and conferred the degree of Entered Apprentice
upon the candidate. On the following morning he was instructed in
the work, and on the evening of the same day the degree of Fellow
Craft was given There was more instruction on the day following,
and on the afternoon of May 3d, at three o’clock, he received the
Master Mason Degree. But three Masons are now living who witnessed
the initiation
“ Soon after Brother McKinley’s initiation the war came to an end,
and the Ohio regiment was ordered home. Major McKinley took his
Dimit from the Winchester Lodge, and affiliated with Canton Lodge,
No. 60, of Canton, Ohio. When Eagle Lodge, No. 431, was organized
at Canton, Brother McKinley became one of its Charter members, and
continued his membership therein until his death. His interest in
Freemasonry was marked, and never flagged or failed.”
Grand Lodge withdrew its fraternal recognition of the
Grand Orient of Belgium because of the latter’s close rela-
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tions with the Grand Orient of France and the Grand Lodge
of Hamburg. The French Grand Lodge denies the existence
of God, and that of Hamburg is a freebooter, claiming the
right -to establish lodges of its obedience within the territory
of other Grand Lodges, as it is doing today with in the State
of New York.
Of surpassing interest to us is the report of the officers
of the Ohio Masonic Home at Springfield, which gives evi-
dence of the prosperity and usefulness of the Institution.
The report c'overs nineteen pages of Appendix B, and
we have read every word of it with pleasure and profit.
The inmates of the Home are sixty-three men, average age
seventy-two; thirty-four women, average age seventy;
twenty-four boys, average age twelve ; and twenty-four
girls, average age eleven.
The old people are well cared for, and the boys and girls
are fitted for useful lives. The funds are ample, as will ap-
pear from these balances :
“ In the General Fund $2,747 22
In the Endowment Fund _ 9,021 60
In the Hospital Fund 50 00
Total on hand in all Funds $11,818 82
Add balance on hand in Library Fund 1,277 24
Total Cash Assets of the Home, July 31, 1901, $13,096 06 ”
The number of lodges is 499, and the total membership
48,349; a net gain of 2,001.
The, Report on Correspondence covers 329 pages of the
transactions and is the work of Most Worshipful Bro. W. M.
Cunningham. Fifty-nine English-speaking Grand Lodges
come under review, and thirteen non-English-speaking
Grand Lodges.
Brother Cunningham is equipped with the qualities
which go to make a Masonic reviewer — broad learning,
strong convictions, unpretentious common sense, and that
Masonic charity which suppresses the indignant retort that
most men would consider justifiable and merited.
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The Proceedings of North Carolina for 1901 receive fra-
ternal review and this reporter kind personal reference, for
both of which we desire to express our sense of appreciation
to our good brother.
Ike M. Robinson, M. IV. Grand Master.
I. H. Bromwell, R. W. Grand Secretary.
OKLAHOMA— 1901.
9TH Annual. Kingfisher. February 12.
GRAND Master Wm. M. Anderson made a brief but com-
prehensive report of his administration. The progress
made is satisfactory, as shown by this comparative state-
ment :
“ Our Grand Lodge was organized on Nov. 10th, 1892, with ten
constituent lodges, having a membership of 378 Masons, at the time of
organization. On Dec. 31st, 1893, we had increased to 18 lodges with a
membership of 638. We gained four lodges in 1894 and 285 in member-
ship. In 1895, we had 27 lodges and a membership of 1,085. On Dec.
31st, 1896, we had 30 lodges and 1,340 members, a gain of 3 lodges and
a gain of 255 members. At the close of the year 1897, we had a mem-
bership of 1,456 and 35 lodges. During the year 1898 we made the
largest gain, adding 8 lodges and 440 members. At the close of the year
1899 we had 49 lodges and 2,140 members.”
Dispensations were issued for the formation of nine
new lodges ; other dispensations were granted for receiving
and acting upon petitions and for conferring degrees out of
time, and all approved by Grand Lodge.
The decisions of the Grand Master were approved by
Grand Lodge.
The Grand Master’s views as to “Rotation in office ”
are in our opinion so correct that the space required for
their reproduction could not be more profitably used :
“ I find a sentiment, very strong, prevailing among our lodges,
that a brother, when elected Junior Warden, should be advanced each
year until he is Master, and consequently of electing a new Master
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every year. My observation lias thoroughly convinced me that this
sentiment of rotation in office is an injurious one, and in many instances
leads to dire calamity in the lodge. If the lodge has found a Master
who is proficient in the Ritual, and otherwise well qualified to rule and
govern his lodge with regularity and justice, it should not make him
vacate the Oriental Chair, after one year’s experience, simply because
the Wardens or others of his lodge are ambitious to write P. M. after
their names and wear a Past Master’s jewel. A good Warden does not
always make a good Master.
“ A Master of a lodge, in my judgment, should be able to correctly
confer the degrees, and give the lectures, as adopted by the Grand
Lodge; should be versed in Masonic Law and History. He should be
familiar with the Constitution and By-laws of the Grand Lodge, the
By-laws of his own lodge, and the general regulations of Masoury, and
should enforce them; and when presiding he should insist that dignity
and decorum be observed, and should not permit hilarity, heated dis-
cussions, nor any speech or debates which might mar the peace and
harmony of his lodge.”
Brother Anderson’s portrait is that of a young man of
handsome face and amiable disposition.
For the first time in the history of Grand Lodge the
Committee on Appeals and Grievances made a report on
one case only, and that a non-affiliate who had been dici-
plined by the lodge within whose jurisdiction he lived.
The matter of accumulating a fund, the ultimate pur-
pose of which shall be the building- and maintenance of a
Masonic Home, is engaging the earnest attention of these
brethren. It is commendable, but it is well not to go too
fast.
Number of lodges sixty, and the membership 2,512.
The Report on Correspondence, 187 pages, and a review
of the Proceedings of fifty-five Grand Lodges, is furnished
by Bro. J. S. Hunt and is of the same excellent quality as
the report of 1899. It is evidently the work of a conserva-
tive, thoughtful Mason and it is to be hoped that Grand
Lodge will make provision for making these reports annually.
Charles Day, M. W. Grand Master.
| . S. Hunt, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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OREGON — 1901.
5 ist Annual. Portland. June 12.
THE portrait of Grand Master Henry B. Thielsen adorns
the volume, and his address is a very fine report of the
work of the year. He cordially welcomes the brethren to
this Communication and makes appreciative and eloquent
reference to the Masonic pioneers who have entered into rest.
The Masonic dead receive deserved tribute, and those
of the jurisdiction of Oregon who have passed away within
the year have their virtues put on record.
One lodge, Eureka, received dispensation and was put
to work and two others constituted, lone, No. 120, and Azalia,
No. 1 19. The cornerstone of one Masonic edifice was laid,
and another dedicated. Semi-centennial celebrations of two
of the oldest lodges are reported.
The Grand Master spoke at length and wisely, we think,
as to the disposition and safeguarding of the Educational
Fund, which now amounts to $23,218.34, but no action was
taken toward any change of custodian. He said in part:
“ This sum, which now amounts to $23,218.34, while in the care of
the present Trustee of the Educational Fund, than whom no brother
in this Grand Jurisdiction is more beloved and more trusty, is safe, but
the time must come when our brother, upon whom the infirmities of
age are beginning to tell, will desire to be relieved from this burden,
and it is better to surround it with safeguards while it is in such hands
as Brother Mayer’s, than at a time when his successor may feel wound-
ed to think additional precautions are taken just as this trust is trans-
ferred. I further recommend for your consideration whether it be not
advisable to increase the number of Trustees of this valuable fund to
three. One or even two might be called hence between the sessions of
the Grand Lodge, and is it not advisable that a larger number than one
should be concerned to guard against the danger that the incumbents
of the trust might be wiped out? ”
With a little pruning of two decisions, all five of those
reported were approved by Grand Lodge.
The difficulties of having uniformity of work even with
the aid of three Custodians are thus set out:
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“Believing that the Grand Lodge intended only one work should
be taught in Oregon and not three, I endeavored to secure a meeting of
the three Custodians to harmonize possible differences, but was unable
to arrange this until November, at which time the Custodians met at
Salem, where they were in session for several days. There being no
one of the three having paramount authority, I had to assume authority
to decide in case of differences.
“ Prior to this meeting Worshipful Brother Charles E. Worden,
Custodian of the Work for the District of Southern Oregon, tendered
his resignation. Having been unable to induce Brother Worden to
withdraw this, on November 9 I announced through the Grand Secre-
tary the appointment of Worshipful Brother W. J. Butler, Past Master
of Blanco Lodge, No. 48, to be Custodian of the Work. Prom the re-
ports of the several Custodians, you will see that the districts of the
Willamette and Southern Oregon have been pretty well covered during
the past year, but I regret to say that, owing to press of other duties,
the Custodian for Eastern Oregon has been unable to accomplish much
in his district. The value of continuous, systematic effort to teach a
uniform work cannot be overestimated, and it is to be hoped that the
end desired may be reached through the medium of the present ma-
chinery. To insure this, however, the Custodians should meet once a
year, at least, to harmonize differences, as these differences will come
about even in so short a time as a single year. In the absence of a
standard, however, there should be some authority competent to decide
who is correct when these doctors disagree, and I leave it to your wis-
dom to decide where this authority should be seated.”
Oregon is not without trouble with clandestine Masonry,
as the following extract will show:
“ We, in our own midst, have an irregular lodge styling itself ‘Coos
Bay Lodge, No. 55/ at Beaver Hill, Oregon. This is a negro lodge,
and has before given us some trouble. I understand they are occasion-
ally making members of white men, and I would suggest that our mem-
bers living in that neighborhood should let it be known that this is a
spurious lodge, and I call the attention of all our lodges that they must
be careful not to admit as visitors any members of this clandestine lodge.
I am informed that many of their own members suppose they are work-
ing under our authority; that one C. M. Richardson claims to repre-
sent them in our Grand Lodge, and comes to Portland at the time of
our Annual Communications, and gives out at Beaver Hill that he comes
to attend our sessions.”
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The Grand Lodge of Western Australia was duly recog-
nized on recommendation of the Committee on Correspond-
ence, but the Committee asked for further time to consider
the request of the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica.
A very good address was delivered by Bro. Leroy Lewis,
on the philosophy of Masonry, for which he received the
thanks of Grand Lodge.
Two historical addresses by Bros. J. M. Hodson and
John McCracken are full of interest, and we have read them
both with a great deal of pleasure.
There are ioi lodges, and a membership of 5,598.
The Report on Correspondence, by Past Grand Master
J. M. Hodson, is a review of the Proceedings of fifty-four
Grand Lodges, and North Carolina for 1900 is of the num-
ber and is indebted to Brother Hodson for fraternal notice.
We are glad to be in accord with our brother on so many
things, and of these clandestine Masonry, whether practiced
by white or black, forms no exception.
Speaking of the few readers of the Correspondence
Reports, under Iowa, Brother Hodson says:
“ While we do not think as many read as should do so, yet we think
they are more numerous than some of the cranky Grand Masters imag-
ine. It’s just like the local department of a country newspaper — so
long as all is nice, smooth and flattering, you never know you have any
readers, but let a little criticism of the Hon. Squeebob, county com-
missioner, or a mild sneer at the crazy make-up of the made-over last
year’s bonnet of Mrs. McFlimsey, and you’ll find out all of a sudden
that you have more readers than subscribers by a long shot. The re-
ports are all right, sometimes a little too long and prosy, containing too
much personal reference and glorification, but they contain exactly
what the real Masonic student needs and those who, having the oppor-
tunity, fail to read them, are the real losers.”
William E. Grace, M. W. Grand Master.
}as. F. Robinlon, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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PENNSYLVANIA— 1900.
BEAUTIFULLY executed steel engravings of Grand
Master James Page, 1846 — 1847, and of Grand Master
Peter Fritz, 1848 — 1849, give real adornment to this volume,
already above praise for its excellent arrangement and
finish, to say nothing of the comfort to old eyes which it
carries in its print.
Quarterly Communications were held March 7th, June
6th, September 5th, and December 5th, and the Grand
Annual Communication December 27th.
The Special Committee appointed Dec. 6, 1899, for the
purpose of investigating the repairs needed for the Temple
submitted its report and recommended an appropriation of
$74,500 for purposes of alteration and repairs. The report
and recommendation were adopted with as little noise as if
the amount were seventy-five cents.
.On the recommendation of the Committee on Corre-
spondence fraternal recognition was extended to the newly
formed Grand Lodge of Western Australia.
The Committee on Temple gave out a contract for im-
provements involving an outlay of $33,800, which, as we
take it, is independent of the allowance made to the Special
Committee of $74,500.
The failure to print in the Proceedings the names of indi-
viduals under the shadow of Masonic disapproval, or the
names of lodges to which they belong, commends itsef to us
as being eminently right and proper. As an example, take
this report of the Committee on Appeals:
“ Resolved , That in consequence of the failure of O. McL. B. to ap-
peal from the action of Lodge No. — within six months after the final
action of said Lodge as required by the Ahiman Rezon the appeal be
dismissed.”
The death on Aug. 8, 1900, of Past Grand Master
J. Simpson Africa elicited many eloquent tributes to his
character and worth from brethren who knew him well and
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were co-workers with him in many lines of effort. Few men
deserve the simple eulogy of Grand Master George E. Wag-
ner to the virtues of the dead Mason :
“Our beloved Brother was an industrious and painstaking Free-
mason, all duties intrusted to him being discharged with care and
fidelity, and to the full satisfaction of the Craft. His death leaves a
vacancy hard to fill, not only because of his Masonic skill and labors,
but also because he was a social and lovable man, an agreeable com-
panion, a wise counselor, a good man, and a good Mason. Let us keep
his memory green.”
The presentation and acceptance of a portrait of the
late Grand Master, Henry W. Williams, was the occasion for
the delivery of eloquent speeches by District Deputy Grand
Master Francis E. Watrons, by the Grand Master and by
Past Grand Master William J. Kelly.
The Grand Lodge Charity Fund received during the
year $5,626.45, and disbursed $4,640 to the almoners. The
securities of this fund amount to $73,300, with a prospect of
being soon increased by the addition of a bequest of $25,000
or $30,000.
All the funds of Grand Lodge are safely invested and
sedulously guarded by capable Trustees.
In the opening of his address the Grand Master looks
back just one hundred years and finds that at the Grand
Communication of Dec. 27, 1800, there were on the rolls
sixty lodges, with a membership of 1,500, while today there
are 437 lodges and a membership of about 55,000.
The Grand Master adverts at some length to the vigor-
ous denial by some of the brethren of Massachusetts that
Philadelphia was the “MotherCity” of Masonry in America,
and objects to what he thinks was intemperate in the language
used. He says in part :
“ I do not intend to discuss the question of the ‘ Mother City; ’ the
established facts are plain. There were Lodges in Pennsylvania in
1730; the ledger of a Lodge working in Philadelphia in February, 1731,
has been produced; it is known as 1 Libre B; ’ preceding that must have
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been a 1 Libre A.’ How many years that was in use before ‘ Libre B ’
was begun is left to conjecture. The deputation to Brother Daniel
Coxe as Provincial Grand Master for New York, New Jersey, and
Pennsylvania, issued by the Grand Master of England in 1730, appears
on the records of that date.
“ In Massachusetts the first Lodge dates from 1733. This was con-
stituted by Brother Henry Price, who claimed to have a Commission as
Provincial Grand Master; doubtless he had such a Commission, but it
is nowhere recorded, except by a copy of a copy said to have been made
at least twenty years later.
“ In the face of these facts, what is the use of calling hard names?
What difference does it make who discovered them, and how are we to
get away from them if we want to?
How can it alter the fact that there were Lodges meeting here in
1730, as published by the Pennsylvania Gazette., whether Franklin, the
publisher of that paper, was at that time a Mason or not?”
“ Franklin was the newspaper man of his day; as such he published
current happenings. It is impossible to believe that he manufactured
the news referred to — what could be his object? He certainly was not
making material for the 1 Mother City ’ controversy of one hundred and
fifty, or more, years later.
“ Surely our Massachusetts Brethren do not intend to assert that
our Lodges of 1730 were clandestine, and that Benjamin Franklin and
our other worthies of that date were illegitimate Masons, or met with
and recognized such.”
Pennsylvania has a way of dealing with rejected material
that goes off to some other jurisdiction to receive the de-
grees of Craft Masonry and later returns with the expectation
of being acknowledged and received as a Mason ; — a way
that is effective although radical. Grand Lodge forbids her
constituents from having any intercourse with this type of
Mason.
Although occupying much of our space, we feel that we
are serving our brethren of North Carolina by reproducing
the doctrine of Pennsylvania on the subject of lodge juris-
diction as enunciated by the Grand Master:
“ That there may be no misunderstanding of our law, it is well,
perhaps, to lengthen a little more this already long statement. In
Pennsylvania there is no such thing as Lodge jurisdiction over intend-
ing petitioners. Every man is entitled to apply to any Lodge in this
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Jurisdiction or elsewhere. Should he, however, petition a Lodge not
nearest his place of residence, such Lodge must be inquired of, in
order to ascertain what is his reputation where he is best known* and
to learn his standing and fitness to become a Mason. If no Masonic
objection appears on such inquiry, the Lodge petitioned may proceed
in the regular way. When a resident of this State petitions a Lodge
of another, the same inquiry is made by correspondence through the
respective Grand Masters. If the resident of another State petitions
one of our Lodges, the same course is followed. The object of these
regulations is plain; it is to keep out improper material, to allow none
to enter the portals of Freemasonry except men of reputation, integ-
rity, and good standing in their respective communities.”
The Report on Correspondence is a review of the Pro-
ceedings of fifty-nine Grand Lodges, nine of them for two
years, and profitably occupies about two-thirds of this large
volume, or 355 pages. Like the report of last year, it is
prepared by Bro. James M. Lamberton and ranks with the
best work of its kind. North Carolina for 1900 receives
four and a half pages of kindly review and an occasional
but merited jab in the short ribs.
We agree with him as to the grotesqueness of having a
Masonic installation at a picnic, or indeed in any other
place than in the lodge, but some lodges want the show and
some Grand Masters are willing to indulge “the boys.”
We accept Brother Lamberton’s correction of Bro. E. W.
Pou’s chronology and think that the error in time should be
charged up to poetic license. Thanks, Brother, for the ex-
planation of the seeming continuous session from 10 a. m.
to 9. 1 5 P. M.
George E. Wagner, R. I V Grand Master.
William A. Sinn, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND— 1901.
26th 'Annual. Charlottetown. ■ June 24.
THE address of the Grand Master, Ronald McMillan, is a
■ brief and unpretentious account of his official doings.
As a loyal subject of the Crown he mourns the death of
Victoria, the beloved Queen, and prays for a like successful
reign for her son and successor, King Edward VII. Allu-
sion is made by the Grand Master to the war in South Africa
and to the patriotic services of the contingent from Prince
Edward Island.
Proper reference is made to deceased members of the
Craft at home and abroad. The dispensations are few.
The Grand Master strongly urged that regular contribu-
tions be made to the Benevolent Fund, which is now $350,
but beyond a contribution of $25 a year from Grand Lodge
the additions to the fund are entirely from voluntary offer-
ings of individuals. At the close of the session the fund
had grown to $385.
The numerical growth is slow, only an increase of
twenty-three being reported for the year.
Visitations, considering the rigors of the climate and
the difficulties of travel, were numerous and of good result.
The work was good and the business of lodges well con-
ducted.
The Grand Lodge of Western Australia was duly recog-
nized as a Sovereign Grand Lodge. No action seems to
have been taken on the request for recognition of the Grand
Lodge of Costa Rica.
There was but one decision reported:
“I decided that any member in good standing has the right to
object to the initiation and advancement of a candidate after he has
been declared elected or initiated, and it has the same force and effect
as if he had been present at the election and cast his ballot.”
The Jurisprudence Committee reported adversely to
part of the decision, and its report was adopted by Grand
Lodge, and rightly, it seems to us:
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“ The second part of the decision, your committee view in a differ-
ent light. The candidate having acquired certain rights as an B- A.,
cannot be stopped by a mere objection after initiation, he is received
as a brother, and, as such, he is entitled to more consideration than the
mere profane, and any allegation reflecting upon the character or qual-
ifications, should be carefully examined. Objection to advancement
should be made known to the Master, and referred to a committee, that
their validity may be inquired into, and determined by the Lodge.
Upon the reception of the report, if no cause for objection has been
assigned, or if the reasons assigned be, in the opinion of a majority of
the members present, insufficient, the Lodge may confer the degree in
the same manner as if no objection had been made; but if the reasons
assigned shall be sufficient to stay the degree, the candidate shall be
entitled upon application to a trial upon the alleged objections.”
The Grand Treasurer reported the. Grand Lodge Gen-
eral Fund to be $492.38.
The number of lodges is thirteen, the membership 559.
John Muirhead, M. IV. Grand Master.
Neil MacKelvie, R. W. Grand Secretary.
QUEBEC— 1901.
3 ist Annual. Montreal. January 31.
THE address of Grand Master Benjamin Tooke is a Ma-
sonic paper of great value, for beside the recital of his
official acts, it contains practical admonitions of prime im-
portance to the Craft. The second paragraph is so full of
pith and marrow to the individual Mason that we repro-
duce it :
“In entering upon the new century and our thirty-first Annual
Communication, let us as Brethren greet each other with renewed vows
of constancy, endeavouring hand in hand to perform those duties that
will accrue to the honour, dignity and prosperity of our universal fra-
ternity. Let us one and all resolve, that in this new century the stand-
ard shall not be lowered in the selection of material, that worth and
not numbers shall be our watchword, merit rather than rotation actuate
our choice, and thus hand down to those who follow us a fraternity
unimpaired.”
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In referring to the distinguished dead the Grand Master
pays loyal tribute to the Queen as the life-long patroness of
Masonry, and as the “greatest woman ruler of all time.”
The war in South Africa elicits from Brother Tooke
sentiments of patriotism and pride.
It is to be hoped that all the lodges still paying alle-
giance to the Grand Lodge of England will unite with the
Grand Lodge of Quebec and thus contribute to the strength
and usefulness of the Fraternity. Of this divided condition
he says:
“ Reference to the question of Masonic jurisdiction in my last report
to Grand Lodge has been referred to in England and* a great many
Masonic jurisdictions throughout the world. The kind and fraternal
expressions universally endorsing our claims, must be a source of sat-
isfaction to the members of this Grand Lodge. But more than all this
is the realization that quite a number of earnest Masons at present mem-
bers of the Lodges here working under England, are engaged in the
good work of uniting all Masonic interests under one government All
agree that such action will benefit Freemasonry as a whole in this
Province, and will at once remove the opportunity now offered to those
who, of their own free will, desire to join our Fraternity, but cannot
determine to which 1 set ’ they will be identified. Let our actual teach-
ings prevail and I feel certain the efforts of these worthy Craftsmen
will be crowned with success. The ‘ London Freemason,’ the influence
of which is so well known throughout the Masonic world, in referring to
1 Quebec ’ states that ‘ The union of the English with the Quebec Lodges
will materially strengthen the position of the Craft in the Province,
not merely numerically but rather by the evidence it will furnish to
the world generally that the unity of Freemasonry is something more
than a formal expression which may be used or abused at pleasure.’ ”
The condition of the Craft is reported satisfactory, with
increasing interest among the brethren and the lodges.
It is a source of satisfaction to the Grand Master that
he was not obliged to make any new ruling.
The number of lodges is fifty-seven, and the total mem-
bership 3,825.
Somewhat more than half the volume is devoted to the
very fine Report on Correspondence prepared by Past Grand
Master E. T. D. Chambers. Brother Chambers brings to
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the work a mind well stored with Masonic knowledge and
an easy and forcible pen. In his strict construction of the
perfect youth doctrine we can not follow our Most Worship-
ful Brother, but in most of the questions not yet entirely
settled we are glad to be in accord with him.
Under Wyoming, in discussing restoration after suspen-
sion for non-payment of dues, he expresses the practice
which prevails in North Carolina, and the reason:
“ As the simple failure to pay dues is in this case the cause of sus-
pension, the simple payment of such dues should, it seems to us, re-
store to membership.”
Edson Fitch, M. W. Grand Master.
J. H. Isaacson, R. W. Grand Secretary.
RHODE ISLAND.
THREE volumes of Proceedings, 1899, 1900, and 1901,
recording the labors of the 108th, 109th and noth years
of Grand Lodge since its formation, have just come to hand.
1899.
At the Semi-annual of November, 1898, the live topic be-
fore Grand Lodge was the action of the Grand Lodge of Wash-
ington (now an almost forgotten story) on the subject of
Negro Masonry. Right Worshipful Bro. Henry W. Rugg
presented an elaborate report for the Committee on Corre-
spondence in which he established to the satisfaction of Grand
Lodge that the Washington brethren were unwise and un-
warranted in the departure inaugurated by some of the
younger and “ progressive ” members of that Grand Juris-
diction.
At the Annual of May 15, 1899, the Grand Master, Cyrus
M. Van Slyck, delivered an excellent address in which he
reported all matters of importance occurring during the
year.
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His decisions had reference only to the construction of
domestic enactments. He said he was determined to be
cautious in granting dispensations, and especially dispensa-
tions for receiving and acting upon petitions and conferring
degrees out of time ; and not many of these were issued,
but it is to be observed that permits were allowed for attend-
ing church “ in Lodge formation.” It is hard to find a good
reason for these displays, unless it is that some of the newly
elected “ boys ” want to appear in their trappings. A really
devout Christian Mason would prefer to attend divine wor-
ship with less ostentation, but as it is after all a matter of
taste, there is room for difference.
1900.
As in last year, so in this, there were many ceremonials
of a public character that were very interesting.
The address of the Grand Master, Milton Livsey, at the
Semi-annual and Annual Communications, was devoted al-
most entirely to affairs of the Craft within the jurisdiction.
In this connection it is pleasant to note the extreme care
and close supervision given by the Grand Lodge officers to
all that concerns the condition of the Subordinate Lodges.
Their By-laws, their finances and especially their work
receive the closest scrutiny, and it is no wonder that the
lodge work merits high praise from visitors who have the
opportunity of witnessing it.
1901.
This volume of the transactions of the Semi-annual and
Annual Communications contains the portraits of President
McKinley and Grand Secretary Edwin Baker, who died on
May 15th, and was buried by Grand Lodge three days later.
Brother Baker had been in this service since 1872, nearly
thirty years, and was the best-known Mason in the juris-
diction.
The address of the Grand Master, Frederick G. Stiles,
is, like that of his two immediate predecessors, an excellent
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presentation of his official doings, and received, as it deserved,
the commendation of his brethren.
There are thirty-seven lodges, and a membership of
5,471, showing the high average of 148. This large mem-
bership is a very important factor in the prosperity of the
Craft in Rhode Island.
j. Ellery Hudson, M. W. Grand Master.
S. Penrose Williams, R. W. Grand Secretary.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA- 1901.
THIS little book of only forty-two pages contains the busi-
ness transactions of the Half-yearly Communication of
Oct. 17, 1900, and of the Annual of April 17, 1901.
The record is as condensed as it is possible to make it,
and if there were any rhetorical displays the Grand Secre-
tary has prudently kept it to himself. Such entries as these
may be found from page to page :
“ The total worth of Grand Lodge Funds is as under:
“ General Fund — £42J 8 o
Benevolent Fund 877 5 4
Permanent Benevolent Fund 1,000 4 11
Freemasons’ Hall Property - 16,692 16 11
/i8,99i 15 2
“ The Trustees propose, with the sanction of the Grand Lodge, to
grant the sum of A100 out °f the surplus revenue, to the Board, for the
purpose of Masonic charity. The Grand Lodge will be asked to approve
of this.”
“The calls upon the Benevolent Fund for the half-year have
amounted to the sum of ^95 4s., distributed amongst 33 applicants. In
addition to this, a number of Brethren and Widows are assisted by
periodical grants from the Permanent Benevolent Fund The number
so relieved at present is 10, and the payments for the half-year
amounted to £€>7."
The number of lodges is forty-three, and the total
membership is 2,594.
Rt. Hon. Sir S. J. Way, M. IV. Grand Master.
J. H. Cunningham, V. W. Grand Secretary.
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SOUTH DAKOTA— 1901.
27TH Annual. Sioux Falls. June ii.
THE pictorial embellishments of this volume consist of a
■ portrait of Grand Master John A. Cleaver and photo-
graphs of the handsome Masonic Temples at Sioux Falls
and Aberdeen.
Grand Lodge was heartily welcomed to Sioux Falls in
a graceful speech by the representative of the two local
lodges, and the Grand Master made suitable acknowledg-
ment.
The address of the Grand Master is a frank accounting
of his official doings for the year.
Among the dispensations reported are four for conferr-
ing degrees out of time, and the Jurisprudence Committee
brings the Grand Master up with a round turn, thus:
“We recommend the approval of all dispensations relating to
election and installation of officers, but cannot give our unqualified ap-
proval of the dispensations granted to confer degrees out of time, as
this Grand Lodge has repeatedly disapproved such practice.”
Three dispensations were granted for the formation of
new lodges ; and one for a like purpose was refused because
it was feared that the proposed new lodge would languish
and hinder the growth of a contiguous lodge.
Two years ago Grand Lodge renounced the doctrine of
perpetual jurisdiction over rejected material, and in accord-
ance with that action the Grand Master in one of his deci-
sions, No. 3, affirmed the enactment.
The Committee on Jurisprudence by the following re-
port, which was adopted, restored the old law, with some
modification :
“Your Committee on Jurisprudence respectfully submits the fol-
lowing supplementary report:
“ The Committee while approving the decision of the Most Worship-
ful Grand Master at No. 3, with reference to perpetual jurisdiction, for
the reason that the same is founded upon the action of this Grand
Lodge of two years ago, and there being at this time a great diversity
of opinion in this Jurisdiction as to what the law should be with refer-
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ence to perpetual jurisdiction over a rejected candidate while he resides
in this State, by the rejecting Lodge. And your Committee, believing
that decisive action should be taken by this Grand Lodge at this time
with reference to this, recommends the adoption of the following
By-law:
“‘A Lodge which rejects a candidate for the degrees, shall have
perpetual jurisdiction over such rejected candidate during his residence
within this state.
“ ‘ Provided , That waiver of Jurisdiction may be granted at any
stated Communication, by a unanimous vote of those present, vote to
be taken by a secret ballot.’ ”
The Grand Lodge of Western Australia was recognized
and an exchange of Representatives recommended.
There are sixty-six lodges, three of them U. D., and the
membership is 4,005.
Our Tarheel brother, S. A. Brown, again writes an
excellent review of the Proceedings of fifty-eight Grand
Lodges, including North Carolina for 1900. We take this
from his introduction and subscribe to it :
“ Our Brethren of the Grand Lodge of Washington maintain a pro-
found silence upon the subject of Negro Masonry. This silence is not
satisfactory to many of the Brethren throughout the country, but no
decisive action has yet been taken by which to express the dissatisfac-
tion. No more Grand Lodges have declared non-intercourse, but a
number have refused to exchange Representatives, and some have
postponed action for one year. We are profoundly impressed with the
gravity of the situation and trust that .Washington Grand Lodge will
speak this year. There can be no doubt that if the Masons of the United
States thought that the declarations recently made by the Grand Lodge
were the real sentiments of the rank and file of Washington Masons,
she would be left standing alone, entirely and at once But it is believed
that Brother Upton, who champions the cause of the Negro Masons
(so-called), is Masonically insane, and that his associates, recognizing
his infirmity, and hoping for his recovery, have treated him as such,
agreeing with him in everything and concealing their own opinions.”
Charles Hill, M. IV. Grand Master.
Geo. A. Pettigrew, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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TENNESSEE— 1901.
87TH Annual. Nashville. January 30.
THE likeness of Grand Master-elect Isaac J. Thurman
occupies the fly-leaf.
The address of Grand Master J. H. McClister contains
a detailed statement of his official doings during his term of
office, and it is entirely a business document.
Appropriate reference to the Masonic dead is made, and
special tribute offered to the memory of Past Grand Master
George H. Morgan.
The state of the Craft is not entirely satisfactory, some
few of the lodges being dead or dying. Two of these the
Grand Master buried with scant ceremony.
Many dispensations were granted and a few refused.
The Grand Secretary, Bro. John B. Garrett, presented
a very interesting report, in which is included a brief review
of the history of Grand Lodge from the time of its forma-
tion in 1813 to the present time. On the roll of the Grand
Lodge are the names of many distinguished brethren who
became illustrious in the history of the country, notably
Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson, who
had reached the highest political office in the gift of the
people — President of the United States.
The report of the Board of Control of the Masonic
Home shows that there are seventy-five children attending
the Home School and that their progress has been satisfac-
tory. The per capita cost of maintenance of the 112 inmates
is- surprisingly small, only $5.25 per month, or $63.00 a year.
The Committee on Jurisprudence gave strong com-
mendation to the acts of the Grand Master; recommended
the recognition of the Grand Lodge of Western Australia,
but advised delay in reference to the Grand Orient of Italy
and the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica.
The report of the Board of Custodians contains many
wise suggestions, applicable to other Grand Lodges as well
as Tennessee. These extracts are taken from the report
and show the need of reformation:
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“ The greatest difficulty in the way of our system of promulgating
the work is for the Lecturers to gain admission to the Lodges for the
purpose of instruction. Many Lodges claim they do not need their
services, and in some instances positively decline to receive instruction.
They do not seem to realize that better work means more work, and
consequently a better financial condition. We now have in mind a
Lodge that ‘does not need instruction,’ and yet they have not con-
ferred a degree in two years, because their officers are not prepared to
do the work.
“ We are also advised by the Lecturers that the officers of some of
the Lodges are still using boo.^s and so called ‘ aids,’ even the posses-
sion of which has been prohibited by the Grand Lodge. Comment as
to their fidelity to their engagements is unnecessary.
“ It is pleasant to relate that a large majority of the Lodges are in
good, comfortable quarters, well furnished; however, some are not in
this condition, and largely from the neglect and indifference of the
members. It takes but little to keep the place of meeting clean and
comfortable. A few dollars spent for a carpet, some nice furniture, and
other equipage necessary to favorably impress the initiate and make
the surroundings attractive to the membership, will bring large interest
on the investment. A dirty, unattractive Lodge room bespeaks a lack
of enterprise and interest in the membership that will invariably hin-
der, if not forbid, the advancement of the Lodge.”
The number of lodges on the rolls is 427, and the mem-
bership is 17,343-
The mantle of our deceased brother, Past Grand Mas-
ter George H. Morgan, has fallen on Bro. Henry H. Inger-
soll, who becomes- chairman of the Committee on Corre-
spondence. His report for the year covers a review of sixty
Grand Lodge Proceedings and a space of 153 pages of the
volume. North Carolina for 1900 is pleasantly noticed, and
Grand Master Noble and Brother Pou, the Grand Orator,
receive each the compliment of a quotation. This is Brother
Ingersoll’s salutatory:
“ The traveler in other States and lands, if he be observant, surely
sees many odd, rare, and beautiful things to give him entertainment
and instruction; and, if he hath learned the joy of giving, he notes
peculiarities and gathers specimens for preservation, so that returning
home he may repeat the pleasures of his tour by showing his trophies
to his friends, and prompted by his notes, recount to them his sights
and sensations on the pilgrimage. Thus he doubles his own joy by
sharing it with others.
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“ In some such spirit, Brethren, your Correspondent, after an annual
journey through the Proceedings of the Grand Lodges of the world,
having noted what seemed worthy of remembrance and excerpted treas-
ures from their pages, now brings them to you with comment and
remark in the hope that you may receive both pleasure and profit, and
he approval and favor from the Report.”
In our review of the Proceedings of Tennessee for 1900
we expressed the hope that Brother Morgan would soon be
restored to health and able to resume his labor of love at
the Round Table, but that hope was vain ; he has laid aside
the pen forever. We welcome his successor and venture to
predict that his new line of effort will be pleasant to him
and profitable to the Craft of Tennessee.
Isaac J. Thurman, M. IV. Grand Master.
John B. Garrett, R. W. Grand Secretary.
HE address of Grand Master R. M. Lusk is a lengthy
document, covering about thirty-five pages of the
volume, but is in every way an admirable history of a very
successful administration, for which he has received the un-
stinted praise of the Fraternity. No stronger evidence of
his tact and fitness as an executive could be adduced than is
contained in this announcement of the condition of the Craft ;
“ There may have been years when there were greater additions to
our ranks, but I am persuaded that there never has been a Masonic year
in our history more characterized by peace and harmony than the one
just closed. I am pleased to be able to announce that of the six hun-
dred and forty -five working lodges in this State, with an aggregate
membership of about thirty thousand, I have been spared the painful
duty of disciplining a single one. It is true, occasional differences and
irregularities have occurred, but they were such that by the exercise of
kind and conciliatory measures, they were easily adjusted and cor-
rected.”
TEXAS-1900.
65TH Annual.
Houston.
December 4.
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In the notice of the fraternal dead, the Grand Master
makes feeling reference to the fateful end of Grand Master
Robert Maxwell Smith, of Arkansas, his wife and four chil-
dren, in the Galveston storm of September, 1900.
Naturally, considerable space is devoted to the loss of
life and property among Masons in the Galveston horror,
and the story as told by Brother Lusk is deeply interesting.
We make this extract:
“ The city of Galveston and the territory visited by the storm having
been cut off with communication from the outside world, and the news-
papers evidently not desiring to exaggerate or magnify the devastation
and ruin, from the meager reports received by them, it was two or
three days before the country at large was apprised of the full extent
of the terrible disaster. It is questionable if, with all the zeal, energy
and descriptive powers of the newspaper reporters and other writers
on the subject, the people at large yet fully comprehend the scope
and extent of the damage to property, and of the suffering and agony,
mental and physical, attending it.
“ The most fertile imagination can not grasp or conceive it. It is
doubtful if one who passed through it has a full comprehension of its
appalling terrors, misery and ruin. Those who visited the scene within
the next few days after the storm and saw death, desolation and dev-
astation on every hand might have obtained, by the aid of the imagi-
nation, a faint idea of the awful fright and peril to which these unfortu-
nate people were subjected.”
Nine lodges were constituted and dispensations granted
for the formation of eight new lodges.
The Grand Master is inflexibly opposed to granting dis-
pensations for conferring degrees out of time and refused
every application, because in neither case was there any real
emergency. It required no small amount of courage to
pursue this course, and we admire the Grand Master’s per-
formance of his duty as he saw it.
The dedication of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Home at
Fort Worth is reported and a strong plea entered for its
proper maintenance.
From the reports of the Board of Directors and the
Superintendent we make these extracts, as showing the
efficiency of the institution even in its infancy:
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“ Our Home was opened for the reception of children on the 6th
day of October, 1899, and up to the 1st day of October, 1900, we have re-
ceived ninety-eight applications in regular form for the admission of
children, of which sixty-three have been admitted to the Home; and
eleven applications of widows, of which one has been admitted to the
Home, four have been provided with homes elsewhere, and three have
left the State.”
11 We have completed and furnished the new Dormitory at an ex-
pense of 1x1,735.19, and it is now occupied by the widow and girls of
the Home. The new house is furnished with steam heat, baths and
closets, and furnished with iron bedsteads and washstands, as in the
main building.”
“The first year of the history of this institution has just closed,
and I have had the honor to be your first Superintendent. In the body of
my report I have mentioned some of the difficulties which were in the
way of minimum economy. I fear that I have not reached your expec-
tations in that regard, but I believe that I have conducted the affairs of
the Home in a way to bring no discredit to your efforts in its behalf and
have put the Masonic school — the crowning feature — on a solid and
useful basis, fully abreast with modern ideas and methods. Your
children have advanced wonderfully in their school studies, and now
need only continued encouragement to carry them to the consummation
of your hope — honest and intelligent citizenship. The experience of
the past year has caused me to form many opinions concerning the
needs of the Home, but as nearly all of them would be deemed imprac-
tical at present, I have made no recommendations.”
Nineteen decisions were rendered and all were approved
as in accordance with Masonic law except No. 16, which is
thus clearly stated by the Jurisprudence Committee:
“ We can not agree with the Grand Master in decision No. 16, in
holding that the expulsion of F. L- Topia by Meridian Lodge, No. 308,
in Mississippi did not affect his Masonic status in Texas. In discussing
this subject and taking the States of Florida and New York for ex-
amples, Dr. Mackey, in his valuable work, says: ‘And if expulsion is
the result of such trial, that expulsion, by the lodge in Florida, carries
with it expulsion from its own lodge in New York, for if the premises
are not denied that the lodge in Florida can rightfully exercise penal
jurisdiction, then the conclusion follows that that expulsion must be
legal. But expulsion annuls all Masonic status, and obliterates Masonic
existence, and the Mason, whoever he may be, that has been legally
expelled by one lodge, can never receive admission into another.’
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“There can be no question but that the Mississippi Lodge had
jurisdiction to try the accused in this case, because he resided within
the territorial jurisdiction of said lodge and the offense was committed
against that lodge, wherefore the expulsion was legal and carried with
it Masonic death everywhere in whatsoever degree he may have taken.”
The Report on Correspondence is the work of Past
Grand Master Thos. M. Matthews, M. D., and is a delight-
ful review of the Proceedings of forty-two Grand Lodges,
all that had been received. The North Carolina volume
came to hand for 1900 and receives very kind treatment.
We have seen so much to admire and commend in this
volume that the extracts occupy largely of our space, but
we believe it will be of profit and pleasure to the North
Carolina Mason who chooses to read.
N. M. Washer, M. W. Grand Master.
John Watson, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
UTAH— 1901.
30TH Annual. Salt Lake City. January 15.
THIS is a decidedly pictorial volume, being adorned with
portraits of the incoming Grand Master, Charles Wes-
ley Morse, and of seven Past Grand Masters — Charles W.
Bennett, John S. Scott, William F. James, Samuel Paul,
Abbot R. Heywood, Arvis S. Chapman, and William T.
Dalby. Short biographies of these brethren front their pic-
tures and make the whole more interesting to the Masons of
Utah.
The outgoing Grand Master, George V. Schramm, hav-
ing been away from the jurisdiction for two months, the
government of the Craft for the time fell into the hands of
the Deputy Grand Master, and there are two reports, com-
plementary of each other.
The Craft in Utah is represented to be moving steadily
forward.
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The Masonic dead receive appropriate reference from
the Grand Master and from the Committee on Obituary.
The mine explosion at Scofield and the storm at Galves-
ton are referred to. In the former disaster two Utah Masons
lost their lives, and the lodges contributed nearly $500 for
the relief of the sufferers.
Grand Lodge endorsed the act of the Deputy Grand
Master in sending $100 to the Texas Masons.
The Grand Master expresses the opinion that it is wrong
for members of investigating committees to interview the
applicant, lest he should find out who are members of the
committee, but the Jurisprudence Committee doesn’t think
so, and it seems to us this Committee is right.
He also appeals to Grand Lodge to let Brother Diehl
quit the topical form of Correspondence Report, and to this
the Jurisprudence Committee makes answer in this way:
“ Your Committee on Jurisprudence begs leave to report on that
portion of the Most Worshipful Grand Master’s Address relating to the
form of the Report on Correspondence; that at the last Annual Com-
munication at which the matter was legislated on it was not made
mandatory to adopt the topical form, but simply suggested that that
form was worthy of consideration. Our accomplished Chris is there-
fore under no restraint, and we recommend that no further action be
taken.”
Two decisions were rendered:
“ First — In the absence of the Master and Senior Warden the Jun-
ior Warden himself must open the Lodge. He cannot legally delegate
that authority.
“ Second — A Mason who has been expelled and afterward reinstat-
ed, but who has not affiliated with a Constituent Lodge, is not legally
entitled to Masonic charity or relief unless he has complied with the
requirements of Sec. 2, Art. XXIII, Grand Lodge Code.”
The second was approved by the Law Committee and
by Grand Lodge ; the first was disapproved by all but one of
the Committee, and he submitted a minority report, which
was adopted. The majority in our opinion was right and
the Grand Master in error.
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The Grand Lodges of Costa Rica and Western Austra-
lia were recognized, and the request of Porto Rico laid over
to next year.
The Grand Secretary’s Report shows the Craft to be in
good condition. Brother Diehl reverts to the past lovingly
and to those associated with him in the early days of Masonry
in the Territory.
In connection with the Grand Lodge Library, which he
has built up to 1,600 volumes or more, he says:
“ A few years ago I was instructed to write a history of Masonry
in Utah. The work takes time and while I have commenced on it, it is
not yet completed. The near approach of the seventieth anniversary
of my birth reminds me that I must make haste if I ever want to be its
author.”
A resolution asking that the Grand Master issue special
dispensation to Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 2, to receive and act
upon the petition of Christopher Bismark Diehl for the three
degrees of Masonry and, if elected, to confer them, was,
after favorable verbal report by the Jurisprudence Commit-
tee, unanimously adopted. This action evidently was
prompted as a compliment to the father and as a recogni-
tion of the woi'th of the son.
There are ten lodges in Utah, with a present member-
ship of 907.
The Report on Correspondence, seven-two pages, is
prepared by Brother Diehl and is in topical form, not by his
preference, but to please his folks. He will not do it any
more. There are nine topics and each receives due con-
sideration from Brother Diehl, but he is at his best when he
lifts the scalp of the non-affiliate. The North Carolina law
is like that of Utah, and under these laws there is no possi-
ble excuse for any Mason, rich or poor, to be on the outside;
that is, if he cares anything for Masonry. The poor will be
carried by the lodge, or Grand Lodge will remit their dues
to the lodge of their membership, as long as they live and
remain unable to pay, and give them Masonic burial when
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they die. Then why should any Mason in Utah or North
Carolina be without the fellowship of a lodge? Brother
Diehl answers the question:
“ Because Masonry has no charms for them, they care nothing for
it, and we believe never did. They are not deserving of any Masonic
charity and brotherly love, and we have none for them. They have for-
gotten their O. B., and we do not propose to remember that they ever
stood before a Masonic altar. In these latter days 1 Once a Mason,
always a Mason,’ is a fiction, and from the present nature of things
must be. It is long ago exploded. There may have been a time when
it was applicable, but that time has passed.”
Charles Wesley Morse, M. W. Grand Master.
Christopher Diehl, R. W. Grand Secretary.
VERMONT— 1901.
io8th Annual. Burlington. June 12.
THE likeness of Grand Master W. Scott Nay, now closing
his second year of faithful and zealous service, forms
the frontispiece of the volume under review. Bro. Walter
E. Ranger, the Grand Lecturer, presents this picture of the
Grand Master of Masons in Vermont:
“To the writer the chief characteristic of Brother Nay seems to be
his genuine altruism. In all the years I have known him I have never
heard from his lips an unkind word about any man. He is kind, warm-
hearted, sympathetic, generous, benevolent. His life exemplifies in
high degree Masonic charity, forbearance and fraternity. He truly
loves the brethren. He has nothing but peace and goodwill for all
mankind. As one has said, ‘ He has a profound interest in every human-
itarian effort for the betterment and happiness of mankind.’ ”
There were several Special Meetings of Grand Lodge,
presided over in every instance by Grand Master Nay.
The address of the Grand Master at the Annual Com-
munication is a full accounting of his stewardship, and he
received the merited commendation of his brethren. Among
the dead of the jurisdiction there is one of whom the Grand
Master says:
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“ On Sept. 17th, 1900, I assisted in the last rites at the burial of the
venerable Janies P. Cleveland of Randolph, the oldest Freemason in
Vermont. Brother Cleveland was one of the few loyal Masons who
were active in the dark anti-masonic days, and succeeded in maintaining
Rising Sun Lodge, of which he had always been a member, and retain-
ing its charter during those troublous times. At the time of Brother
Cleveland’s death he was said to be the oldest Knight Templar in the
world.”
The decisions, relating to domestic laws and usage, are
all approved.
The recommendations of the Grand Master as to the
imposition of a per capita tax to pay off the Temple debt,
and his advocacy of more active work towards establishing
a Masonic Home, came to grief, both of them, when they
faced the terrible Finance Committee, and that Commit-
tee’s report was adopted.
The Grand Lodges of Western Australia and Costa Rica
were recognized as Sovereign Masonic Bodies.
A United States soldier who had been initiated and
passed in a Porto Rico Lodge was removed with his com-
mand to Vermont and remained there some time, how long
is not stated. In anticipation of orders to be sent to the
Philippines, this soldier petitioned Webster Lodge, No. 61,
Winooski, Vt., to be made a Master Mason, and was so
made after having exhibited suitable proficiency in the pre-
ceding degrees. No dates are given and the action of
Webster Lodge is not reported. Presumably the time was
in 1900. In January, 1901, Grand Master Nay wrote the
Grand Master of Porto Rico what he had done and asked
to be healed. The Porto Rican brother, Jose F. Diaz, sent his
approval and fraternal salutations. Having taken a long
breath, Brother Nay says:
“ I consider myself fortunate in the outcome, but would not deem
it wise to recommend the practice to my successors, or consider it a
safe precedent to follow.”
“ if the Grand Lodge of Porto Rico asks recognition, I respectfully
recommend, in view of the magnanimity and fraternal courtesy of its
Grand Master, we may show that its favors are not unworthily be-
stowed.”
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There are 106 lodges, and a membership of 10,235.
These figures would give an average lodge membership of
ninety-six. There are very few numerically weak lodges,
which accounts in part at least for the excellent condition of
the Craft in the Green Mountain State.
The Report on Correspondence is again the work of Past
Grand Master Marsh O. Perkins, and is of such a kind as to
merit the thanks of all English-speaking Masons, but
especially of the brethren in Vermont.
Fifty-six Grand Lodge transactions are fraternally re-
viewed, with commendation and kindly criticism, as circum-
stances demand.
As to the hurry to establish Masonic Homes, of which
we have spoken from time to time, we can do no better than
to adopt as our own the opinions expressed by Bro. J. M.
Hodson, of Oregon, in his review of North Carolina for 1900:
1 In some of the largest institutions of the United States, if the
funds that have been expended were invested in bonds, the income
would support more orphans at good boarding-schools, and more old
people at good hotels, than are kept in the Homes. We are not opposed
to Masonic Homes, but we do consider it yet an open question as to
whether that is the better way to dispense Masonic charity. It makes
a greater show to the world and has the advantage of forcing the stingy
brother to assist, but whether of the greatest good to the greatest
number we are not fully persuaded.”
Brother Perkins, however, takes a different view and
says in part :
“ In this we differ, as to us the evolution is but the broadening of
the ways and means by which such relief is most effective^'' rendered.
There is no departure from the old way, for individual responsibilities
remain as of old and evidences abound that they are as freely assumed
and acknowledged, where those institutions of organized charity exist,
as in days of yore.”
Adverting to our views of the quasi decision of the
Grand Master of Maine in reference to Roman Catholics,
Brother Perkins says:
“ And yet we know of good Catholics, who have highly reflected
the honor of their initiation into Freemasonry.”
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That the brethren to who Brother Perkins refers are
good men and Masons we do not doubt, but that they are
“good Catholics” in the eyes of church, would surprise us
not a little. You will find upon inquiry, Brother, that these
Masons never approach the confessional, nor partake of the
holy communion, and dying, would not sepulture in a Catho-
lic burying ground. It is a misnomer to call them Catholics.
Charles R. Montague, M. W. Grand Master.
Warren G. Reynolds, R. W. Grand Secretary.
VIRGINIA— 1900.
123RD Annual. Richmond. December 4, 5, 6.
THE portrait of Grand Master H. Oscar Kerns adorns the
volume.
The address of the Grand Master, G. W. Wright, is
very brief and deals only with domestic interests. The re-
port of the Committee on Grand Master’s Address indicates
thorough appreciation of that official’s intelligent zeal on the
part of his brethren. We make this extract from the report :
“ The address is a most business-like paper, and all subjects treated
therein are dealt with in the true Masonic spirit. Characterized by the
careful, calm, and conservative spirit of the beloved brother who for
the past twelve months has adorned the Grand East, we commend this
paper to the consideration of the Craft, and believe its perusal will en-
able the Lodges to understand fully the condition of Masonry in this
jurisdiction, and to take steps to meet all contingencies which may
arise. The beauty of its sentiments, couched in vigorous English, will
add to the pleasure of those who read it. We congratulate the institu-
tion upon the successful termination of the Masonic year, and deeply
regret that the beloved brother has seen fit to decline re-election, al-
though the sceptre laid down by him has been placed in the hands of
one who will prove a worthy successor.”
There were but three decisions and these were in the
main in accord with the Virginia law.
From the “Summary and Comparative Statement ” we
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find that there are in the jurisdiction 175 lodges, with a
total membership of 13,444.
The Report on Correspondence. 137 pages, is from the
fertile pen of Bro. Joseph W. Eggleston and is of the same
excellent quality as his former reviews. The Proceedings
of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina for 1900 receive kind-
ly consideration. Anent the decision of Grand Master Noble
that “a lodge could not ballot on a petition without the
report of the Committee” of Investigation, Brother Eggles-
ton says :
“ As to the last, the decision is, of course, correct, if this commit-
tee plan is the law; but we in Virginia do not like it, holding that every
member is bound to satisfy himself as to the fitness of applicants and
petitioners, and this case emphasizes the unwisdom of the plan of com-
mittee reference. Another strong argument against it is that it prob-
ably, in many instances, results in the acceptance of improper mate-
rial, because the committees give the applicants the benefit of too many
doubts rather than give personal offence.”
It may be that our brother is correct in his opinion that
the health and safety of the Craft in Virginia are better sub-
served by the committee of the whole than by the smaller
committee, but it seems to us that in lodge work, as in
other matters, there is much force and wisdom in the homely
adage, “what is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.”
And besides, the report of the Committee of Investigation,
though it were entirely perfunctory and formal, would not
in anywise absolve the other members from the duty of pre-
venting the admission of improper material, and we believe
that these reports have the effect of stimulating individual
Masons to greater watchfulness.
H. Oscar Kerns, M. W. Grand Master.
Geo. W. Carrington, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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WEST VIRGINIA— 1900.
36TH Annual.
Parkersburg.
November 14.
PORTRAITS of Grand Master Arthur D. W. Strickler
and of District Deputy Grand Master M. M. Warren
embellish this volume. Short biographical sketches of these
brethren accompany the pictures and are signed by “G. W. A. , ”
the man of all work in Grand Lodge.
Quite a number of Special Communications were held
for laying corner stones. At one of these held at Charles-
ton on the fourth of July Governor Atkinson delivered an
address well worth its place in the Proceedings.
Another of these Special Meetings was held August 15,
for the purpose of laying the corner stone of the Adminis-
tration Building of the Boys’ Reform School at Pruntytown,
Taylor County. Here Rrother Atkinson delivered a pecul-
iarly appropriate and happy address to the boys, to whom
he promised his support and encouragement then and in the
future.
The address of Grand Master Neil Robinson at the An-
nual Communication is an unpretentious and full report of
his official doings-. He has made an efficient ruler of the
Craft and his brethren of the Grand Lodge have given him
hearty endorsement.
The Grand Master has this to say of some of his visita-
tions :
“It has been my good fortune during the year to meet at their
homes, a great many members of our body who live miles away from
railways and the general line of travel. In every instance a cordial
welcome has been extended and the long Masonic talks which I have
had in the fastnesses of the mountains, are ever in my mind as among
the most enjoyable features of my tenure of office.”
Brother Robinson is opposed to the use of ciphers and
says in part :
“ Let me take occasion to warn the brethren against their use in
any way or manner whatever, because it is a direct violation of the laws
of this Grand Lodge, and the solemn promises made upon one’s en-
trance into Masonic brotherhood.”
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The Grand Master makes the following reference to the
inadequate compensation to Past Grand Master Atkinson
for his excellent work in the Correspondence Department :
“ In looking over the published proceedings of Sister Grand Juris-
dictions, it is apparent that the allowance heretofore made to our
worthy Grand Secretary for his services generally, and for the prepa-
ration of the report on Foreign Correspondence, is out of proportion to
the amount usually credited for the performance of similar duties.
Such information in regard to this subject as I have at hand, is here-
with attached for the consideration of the committee to which it may
be your pleasure to have it referred. Grand Secretary Atkinson has
won a national reputation as an able reviewer, and I trust that we may
have the benefit of his services for many years to come.”
The Special Committee to which this part of the address
was referred reported in favor of an allowance of $300 per
annum , commencing with the report of 1899, and the report
was adopted unanimously.
The reports of the Grand Lecturers and District Depu-
ties indicate that the Craft of West Virginia is in a prosper-
ous condition.
The number of chartered lodges is 117; under dispen-
sation two ; and the total number of Master Masons 6,990.
A rather feeble effort is being made for the establish-
ment of a Masonic Home, but it is a beginning. Each Mas-
ter is to appoint a Committee of three members to solicit
contributions and forward what is thus received to the Grand
Secretary, who will in. turn pay it over to the Grand Treas-
urer. This plan may bring in some money, but it will not
be much.
The Report on Correspondence is a review of the Pro-
ceedings of fifty-seven Grand Lodges, North Carolina for
1900 of the number, and covers 198 pages of the volume.
It is a very fine presentation of the condition of Freemasonry
in the territory traversed by Brother Atkinson, and is thor-
oughly appreciated by the Masons of West Virginia as well
as by those on the outside who have the opportunity of read-
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ing it. We congratulate our brother on the intrinsically
high character of his work and its prompt recognition by his
own people.
A. D. W. Strickler, M. IV. Grand Master.
Geo. W. Atkinson, R. IV. Grand Secretary.
WISCONSIN— 1901.
57TH Annual. Milwaukee. June ii.
TAKEN all in all, this volume of Proceedings is to us the
most attractive of the year and we have read it with
genuine pleasure. The address of the Grand Master, Charles
C. Rogers, is a wonderfully fine paper and merits all the
praise showered upon it by the brethren of Grand Lodge.
His tribute to John W. Laflin, the dearly beloved Grand
Secretary, is very eloquent and we should like very much
to present it to our brethren, if space permitted. Indeed,
we should like for every Mason to read the entire thirty-five
pages of this address. Of Brother Laflin he says in part :
“After thirty-six years of multifarious activity, after eighteen years
of unyielding devotion to the craft of Masonry, this splendid man, the
patriotic citizen, the beloved husband and father, this brave and true
heart, this knightly soul, slept at the conquered goal of his journey,
and the proclamation that John Warren Laflin was dead fell like the
pall of night on the ranks of the hundreds of his admirers and friends
and Masonic brethren in this State and sister jurisdictions with lament-
able sadness.
“ Not in the morning of life, nor yet at the sunset of ripened age,
but in the meridian of noble manhood, this admirable character, this
friend and brother whom we all loved sank to rest, and the book of his
life was finished.”
The dead of other jurisdictions also receive appropriate
notice.
Dispensations of various kinds were granted and Grand
Lodge approved them all. Dispensations were issued for
the formation of four new lodges.
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The decisions, clear in statement and forcible of diction,
are few in number and met the approval of Grand Lodge.
The Craft is reported to be harmonious and prosperous,
of which condition the Grand Master says in part:
“ In nearly every part of the jurisdiction, the true spirit of Masonry
prevails and the dignity and character of the Craft has been maintained.
The laws and edicts have been respected and obedient sanction has
been given to the mandate of constituted authority, and in no instance
has any intentional infringement of our ancient usages and customs
been violated. No manifest intention has come to my notice, of innova-
tions in our lodges.
“ Schools of Instruction have been generally appreciated and more
generally attended. Good fellowship and fraternal feeling is universal.”
Corner stones were laid, lodges constituted, halls dedi-
cated and Masonic burials conducted at Special Communi-
cations of Grand Lodge.
As in other jurisdictions, there is sometimes the neces-
sity of the officers of the law coming in to preserve the
peace.
The Grand Master reported having sent $200 to the
Grand Master of Texas for the Galveston sufferers, and a like
sum for the Jacksonville Masons, and he received the com-
mendation of Grand Lodge for his prompt action.
The guild of Correspondence Reporters receives enthu-
siastic praise from the Grand Master, and Bro. Aldro Jenks
of his own jurisdiction is easily entitled to a foremost place
among these workers. We are glad Brother Jenks’s compen-
sation has been advanced to $300 a year, commencing with
1900. This is the way Brother Rogers dispenses taffy:
“ Our sister jurisdictions, like our own, have always attracted men
to it pre-eminent in every walk of life, many of whom have lent luster
to the Fraternity. The jurisprudence and literature of Masonry today
has taken foremost rank because of the eminent talent and genius of
these men. In looking about us to find that meed of praise due those
who have directed this intelligent research of our philosophy and
science, there are none more able and painstaking than those who
occupy the honored and distinguished position of Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Foreign Correspondence. They are the brightest men in the
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Fraternity. They are students, the men who burn the midnight oil,
the chroniclers of its best thought, men who direct our Craft of State
and keep her from drifting upon the shoals and rocks, who know the
compass and chart of Masonry and keep us to our ancient and tradi-
tional moorings.”
As to the rapid transit from the South to the East,
which prevails in some lodges, the Grand Master has very
pronounced views in opposition to what is called the “ Step-
ladder Rotation in Office. ” He says in part :
“ While I do not believe that it has been generally adopted, yet in
nearly every instance, where this ‘ step-ladder system ’ is in vogue, it
has been demonstrated that such lodges have sown the seeds of dissen-
sion, if not sedition, which in many instances has been the means of
ultimately destroying its usefulness, and the sooner such lodges elimi-
nate these and similar methods, and such members as introduce them
are plainly told that this is not Masonry, so soon will it be in the best
interests of the lodges and the best interests of the institution of
Masonry.”
On the subject of Masonic Homes he expresses himself
as being favorable to the firm establishment of one in Wis-
consin, and endorses cordially the aid given by the good
women of the Eastern Star, with a proviso, however:
“ But I am unalterably opposed to the building of a Masonic Home
until sufficient money is raised for its buildings and ample endowment
to make it self-sustaining. It should never be founded upon a debt.
Let us hope that soon the seed may be sown, then will come the golden
harvest and then the ripened fruit.”
On the subject of physical qualifications Brother Rogers
is in the front rank of the extremists. The “perfect youth”
is rarely found, and it may be guessed that the rank and file
of the membership in those Grand Lodges whose require-
ments are not so rigid will compare, not unfavorably, with
those in the jurisdiction of the strict constructionists, in so
far as relates to physical conformation. We have in our
mind a gentleman made a Mason in the State of New \ork,
who, as a result of an injury in childhood, has a withered
right leg, and by means of mechanical appliances and the
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use of a cane manages to get along fairly well, but with a
pronounced limp. Highly educated in the best schools of
America and Europe, with the best social environments,
with a high character and a bright, lovable disposition and
a rare and humble piety, who shall say that his physical
infirmity forbids his becoming a living stone in the Masonic
structure? But such are to be rejected by the dictum of
Brother Rogers and their places filled by men of brawn and
belly and fat, who have never lost a finger or toe and who
are innocent of false teeth or glass eyes.
On the subject of “ Intemperance ” we join hands with
the Grand Master and express the opinion that Masonry
should forever be divorced from the saloon and its habitues.
The Grand Lodg'es of Cuba and Western Australia were
duly recognized and the exchange of Representatives recom-
mended. The applications for recognition by the Grand
Lodges of Costa Rica and the Valley of Mexico were deferred
for future action.
A Lodge of Sorrow was held on the evening of the first
day’s session, and many beautiful eulogies were delivered
upon the life and character of Bro. John W. Laflin.
The number of lodges is 242, and the membership is
18, 210.
The Report on Correspondence, excellent in every way,
is a review of the transactions of fifty-six Grand Lodges,
North Carolina for 1901 of the number. We are glad to see
that Grand Lodge has seen the propriety of making a more
liberal allowance to Bro. Aldro Jenks for his meritorious
labors.
F. H. L. Gotten, M. W. Grand Master.
William W. Perry, R. W. Grand Secretary.
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WYOMING— 1901.
27TH Annual. Wheatland. September 4.
THIS comparatively small volume of Proceedings is full of
good things from first to last, and contains the trans-
actions of this Communication, a roster of the lodges, Grand
Lodge Constitution, Standing Resolutions, and the Report
on Correspondence. It needs only an index to make it per-
fect, hut as it is it should prove invaluable to the Craft of
the jurisdiction. There are portraits of Grand Master
Charles H. Townsend, Past Grand Master Orlando North,
and W. L. Kuykendall, the Grand Secretary. Brother Kuy-
kendall’s picture comes up to the mental shadowgraph that
we have had hanging before us for several years — rugged,
strong, honest, fearless and unpretentious. May his shadow
never grow less !
The address of Grand Master Townsend is a compact
presentation of his management of affairs for the year past,
and his official acts were in all respects confirmed by Grand
Lodge. His official visits were few, but making two of
them consumed some time, as will be shown by this extract
from his report:
“The trip to these two lodges was a long, hard journey. Being
situated so far from the railroad it took nearly two weeks to make it
and a ride of nearly 500 miles over a hot, dusty road.
•“ Although the journey was a tiresome one, the hearty welcome we
received and the many courtesies extended fully repaid us and we hope
we will have the pleasure of visiting these thriving cities again.’’ .
The Craft is in a prosperous and healthy condition.
Because of futile and needless efforts in some Grand
Jurisdictions to keep the names and findings of committees
of investigation out of the record, and of other Grand Lodges
to confine the conferring of degrees to the Master or a Past
Master, we take pleasure in recording these decisions.
“ Question . — Is it lawful to keep the names of the investigating com-
mittee out of the minutes and from the knowledge of the lodge? The
W. M. giving his appointments to the Secretary, who personally noti-
fies brethren appointed?
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"Answer. — No, you have no right to keep any of the members
ignorant of the proceedings of the lodge. The appointment of such a
committee can only be made at a regular meeting of the lodge and is
part of the regular business and as such should be recorded on the
minutes of said meeting. According to one of our rules no man can
be made or admitted a member of the lodge without previous notice
one lunar month before in order to make due inquiry as to his qualifi-
cations. We appoint a committee for that purpose and they are
required to make a thorough investigation; it is not only right but
very essential that every member of the lodge should know who
compose said committee in order that they may be able to consult with
them in regard to the good or bad qualities of the applicant.
“ Question . — Is it allowable to have the Senior or Junior Wardens
confer the degrees in the presence of the W. M ?
“ Answer . — Yes, the presiding officer has the right to call the
Wardens or any other brother to the chair to confer degrees.
In his conclusion Grand Master Townsend makes
acknowledgment of the prompt and able service rendered
by the Grand Secretary in every time of need. All the
Grand Masters do it; some spontaneously and cordially,
others incidentally, but they all do it.
Grand Lodge adopted the report of the Jurisprudence
Committee, which recommended to have nothing to do with
Mexican or Egyptian Masonry and to defer action upon the
requests of the Grand Lodges of Western Australia, Costa
Rica, and Porto Rico.
It is pleasant to report that the Committee on Griev-
ances and Appeals had nothing to do.
There are eighteen lodges, and a membership of 1,167.
The Report on Correspondence is of course the work of
Brother Kuykendall, and will continue to be his until he
loses taste for the labor which has made him eminent and
given prominence to his Grand Lodge. The North Carolina
legislation in 1901 receives the commendation of Brother
Kuykendall, and that is high praise.
We quote his conclusion:
“The proceedings of a few Grand Lodges have failed to ma-
terialize, which we regret, and accounts for absence herein. In
closing this report, on the threshold of the twentieth century, the close
APPENDIX.
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of which no person now living may see, we cannot through the most
vivid imagination picture the changes that will occur throughout the
world and in Masonry within that time. Within the last fifty years we
have seen our country expand from the Missouri river to the shores of
the Pacific and assisted in laying the foundation of four states on the
Great American Desert as represented on maps when we were a boy.
Along with all this and the wonderful inventions during that time, we
have seen Masonry expand in like manner. Necessarily changes during
this century must be of a different character. May they all be for the
betterment of mankind and may Masonry be one of the main factors
in shaping such changes for the good of the human race is and will be
our parting wish when the time comes for our passing over the river
to those who have gone before. Until then we hope to be blessed
with health and strength to assist in advancing the interests of
Masonry and of the community and state in which we live, at all times
advocating what we believe to be right and dissenting from wrong and
injustice as we see it.”
Samuel Corson, M. W. Grand Master.
W. L. Kuykendall, R. W. Grand Secretary.
Bppenfci* Mo. 2.
Pooler, Chatham County, Ga., May 3, 1898.
R.\ W.\ John C. Dreivry, Grand Secretary.
Worshipful Sir and Brother: — For many years I have
been an enthusiastic lover of Freemasonry, and have from
time to time gathered and preserved a few relics of its his-
tory as chance threw them in my way, and which would
otherwise have been lost — as to the condition and prospects
of our Craft in the United States in the distant past.
In looking over my old keepsakes a short time since, I
exhumed from its temporary grave where it had been buried
from my own observation for some years, the enclosed pam-
phlet, which is “An Abstract of the Proceedings of the
Grand Lodge of North-Carolina. In the Year A. L. 5798,
A. D. 1798.” One century ago. I became much interested
in this venerable, unpretentious paper, and while examining
it from alpha to omega, it occurred to my mind that the best
disposition I could make of it would be to return it to the
source from whence it came. It may be now, that you have
no copy of it in your Archives. Time is a great destroyer,
and we have passed through devastating times in the last
half century. In the course of nature I shall soon pass
away from this tabernacle of flesh in which I have sojourned
so long, and hence, with my compliments, I send this cen-
tinarian back to those whom, I may well suppose, will prize
it most and preserve it best. I have observed that the first
thing this venerable witness testifies to, is the Act incorporat-
ing the Grand Lodge of North Carolina in November, 1797,
as appears from the Act itself, certified to by J. Glascow,
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Secretary of State, who was also, in 1798, its Deputy Grand
Master. That William R. Davie was Grand Master at the
date of incorporation.
The second is, laying the corner stone of the University
of North Carolina, on the 14th of April, A. D. 1798, “and
to join the Truftees of the Univerfity in one ejaculation to
Heaven and the Great Architect of the Univerfe, for the
aufpices of his eternal goodnefs and wifdom, for the prof-
perity of learning, wifdom and virtue of that college — when
were present : The Moft Worfhipful the Honourable William
R. Davie, Grand Matter. The Right Worfhipful Officers
and Members of the Grand Lodge of North-Carolina. ”
Then follows a description of the procession; what
classes of citizens besides Masons joined in it; the route tra-
versed to reach the place, in which “ the great road leading
up the country by Nunn’s tavern, thence up the faid road
near to Nunn’s tavern” — is mentioned — “ and thence to
the place appointed for the erection of the new and main
college, where the order was reverted, accompanied with
mufic fuitable to the occafion.” Then follows a description
of the ceremony and the return of the Craft to the lodge
room, etc.
The next is, the minutes of four several meetings of
the Grand Lodge, with names of officers and members
present, commencing 22nd of November and ending 16th
of December, 1798.
Lodges under its jurisdiction, thirty-five. It is worthy
of note, that St. Tammany Lodge, No. 29 on its roll, but des-
ignated also as No. 1 of Tennessee, was located at “Nafh-
ville, in the state of Tenneffee. ” It is a historical fact that
.North Carolina emigrants first settled that territory in 1757,
and that it was considered a part of that State’s legitimate
domain. In 1789 North Carolina surrendered her right to
the Federal government, and it was admitted into the Union
APPENDIX NO. 2.
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as a State, in 1796, making the sixteenth State, it being the
third admitted after the War of the Revolution. The Grand
Lodge of Tennessee was not formed until 18x4, and hence
I suppose St. Tammany Lodge, No. x, remained upon the
roll of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina until that time.
Considering the sparse population of all our Southern
States one century ago, compared to the present time, it is
interesting now, to all the Fraternity in our land, to learn
from this venerable witness that you had so many lodges
in the “Old North State” one hundred years ago. And
what is still more interesting, that some of them had so
many members; evidencing a very prosperous condition of
our Royal Craft in her jurisdiction at that time. Twenty
lodges reported their membership in full for 1798, and their
names are printed therein, which I have no doubt will be
of particular interest to many present members of the Craft,
who may find the names of their own remote ancestry among
them. The most prosperous lodges as to numbers seem to
have been:
No. 3, St. John’s, Newbern, one hundred and thirty-
four (134). Next, No. 2, Royal White Hart, Halifax, fifty-
seven (57). Next, No. 17, American George, Murfrees-
borough, forty-four (44). Next, No. 25, Pansophia, Moore
County, thirty-eight (38). From the number of Macs in this
list — sixteen in all — with others of unmistakable sound indi-
cating a certain nationality, this lodge should have been
named Scotland. There are five McNeils and three Mc-
Leods. In fact, the whole of its names smack strong of old
Scotia in the Christian or surname, and as the custom in that
day was, there is not a middle name, or initial letter, in the
whole list. Noticing this fact, curiosity induced me to run
my eye over St. John’s Lodge, No. 3; a list of 134 names,
wherein I found only eight with a middle name or initial.
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APPENDIX NO. 2.
In the whole 651 members returned by twenty lodges, I
could count only twenty-nine names with a middle name.
Twenty lodges thus reporting 651 members, is an aver-
age of over thirty-two to each one. Pretty good average
number even for now.
Appended is a list, forty-five in number, designated as,
“ Members of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina,” without
date, and six of them marked as dead. I suppose the Grand
Lodge was then composed of permanent members, and those
on the list were all who were then, or had been members
from its formation. No name has any mark of rank at-
tached.
I notice also, four St. John’s Lodges on its roll; Nos. 1,
3, 4 and 13, and three St. Tammany Lodges; Nos. 29, 30
and 16.
In much weakness, in my seventy-fifth year, I pen this
with my left hand, having lost the use of my right ten years
ago by pen paralysis. Hoping it may all come safe to hand
and be of service to your Grand Lodge, I am,
Fraternally yours,
Samuel D. Irvin,
Past Grand Master of Georgia.
A N
Abstract of the Proceedings
OF THE
GRAND LODGE
O F
NORTH = CAROLIN A.
In the Year A. L. 5798. A. D. 1798.
BE IT REMEMBERED, that on application of the Moft
Worfhipful William R. Davie, Grand Mafter, to the
Legiflature of North Carolina, holden in the city of Raleigh,
in November, A. D. 1797, they were pleafed to grant to
him, and the fraternity of our Craft in this ftate, a law
incorporating the Grand Lodge of North- Carolina: which
by the Moft Worfhipful Grand Mafter is ordered to be
recorded among the archives of Mafonry, as a perpetual
teftimony of gratitude due from the Craft, to wit,
“ An ACT to incorporate the Grand Lodge of North-Carolina.
“ Be it enacted by the General Affembly of the ftate of
“ North-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority
“ of the fame, That the Moft Worfhipful Grand-Mafter,
“the
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“ the Right Worfhipful Deputy Grand Matter, Wardens
“ and Members, who are at prefent, or in future may be
“ of the Grand Lodge of North-Carolina, be, and they are
“ hereby conftituted and declared to be a body corporate,
“ under the name and title of the Grand Lodge of North-
“ Carolina: and by fuch name fhall have perpetual fuccef-
“ fion and a common feal; and may fue and be fued, plead and
“ be impleaded, acquire and transfer property; and pafs all
“ fuch bye laws and regulations as fhall not beinconfiftent
“ with the conftitution or laws of this ftate, or of the United
“ States — any thing to the contrary notwithftanding.
“BENJ. SMITH, S. S.
“M. MATTHEWS, S. H. C.
A true copy, J. Glasgow, Secretary of State.
By order ,
Robert Williams, Grand Secretary .
April 14, A. L. 5798. A. D. 1798.
By order of the Moft Worfhipful Grand Mafter, a fpecial
Grand Lodge was called at the Univerfity of North-Carolina,
for the exprefs purpofe of laying the foundation and corner
ftone of the principal college of that feminary; and to join
the Truftees of the University in one ejaculation to Heaven
and the Great Architect of the Univerfe, for the aufpices of
his eternal goodnefs and wifdom, for the profperity of learn-
ing, wifdom and virtue of that college — when were prefent :
The Moft Worfhipful the Honourable William R. Davie,
Grand Mafter.
The Right Worfhipful Officers and Members of the Grand
Lodge of North-Carolina.
The Brothers, Officers and Members of feveral the Right
Worfhipful Lodges in this ftate under the jurifdiction of
this Grand Lodge, called here by order and fummons of
the Moft Worfhipful Grand Mafter for the purpofe aforefaid.
The
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The Lodge was opened in due form.
On motion, and feconded, Refolved, That this Grand
Lodge proceed in the ancient and ufual form of Mafonry, un-
der the direction of the Moft Worf hipful Grand Mafter, to
the place appointed, to form a general proceffion with the.
Truftees, Faculty and Students of the Univerfity. — His Ex-
cellency the Governor of the ftate of North-Carolina, and
the Honourable the Council of State, the Honourable the
Judges of the Supreme Courts of Law and Equity, the Gen-
tlemen of the Bar from the Superior Court of Hillfborough,
the Rev. Mr. Bingham, A. M. and prefident of the acade-
my in Chatham county, and the ftudents of that feminary,
with many gentlemen of respectability from different parts
of North-Carolina, attending here for this exprefs purpofe.
The proceffiion was then formed by all the Brothers afore-
faid, cloathed in mafonic order, and in folemn form proceed-
ed to the place appointed; when a general proceffion was
again formed, in company with the Craft, by all the above
mentioned gentlemen, under the direction and fuperintend-
ence of the. Moft Worfhipful William R. Davie, Grand
Mafter, and Major-General of the militia in this ftate, in
the following order:
Architect,
Mechanicks and Peasants,
Grand Mu fie,
Teacher and Students of Chatham Academy,
Students of the Univerfity,
The Faculty of fhe Univerfity,
The Gentlemen of the Bar,
The Honourable the Judges,
The Honourable the Council of State,
His Excellency the Governor,
The Truftees of the Univerfity,
The Mafonic Craft, with
The Grand Mafter.
In which form the grand proceffion was conducted in a
Mafonic manner by the direction of the Craft. It confifted
of feveral hundred perfons. It began at the old college,
and was made to the great road leading up the country by
Nunn’s tavern, thence up the faid road near to Nunn’s
tavern,
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tavern, and thence to the place appointed for the erection
of the new and main college, where the order was reverfed,
accompanied with mufic fuitable to the occafion. — Thofe
gentlemen who made the procefiion, and were not of the
Craft, formed themfelves and ftood around the place on
which the building is to ftand ; when the fraternity, led by
the moft Worf hipful Grand Mafter, continued their procef-
fion around the building three times, in a folemn manner ;
when they came to the foutheaft corner of the college, the
Grand Mafter alone, attended by the chief officers and Craft,
proceeded in the antient form of Mafonry to lay in amafonic
order the Corner Stone — which was accordingly done. —
After this, prayers by the Rev. Mr. Caldwell, A. M. and
one of the faculty of the Univerfity, and a numerous audi-
ence of gentlemen and ladies, were offered up to Heaven,
the throne of Grace and Omnifcience, imploring the bene-
diction and fuperintendence of the God of knowledge and
virtue to that foundation of future literature. — The procef-
fion was then again formed by order of the Grand Mafter,
to the chapel; where a handsome and well compofed eulogy
was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Caldwell, and many pieces
of vocal and inftrumental mufic were performed as Hallelu-
jahs, by perfons appointed for that purpofe.
The procefiion of the Craft was then conducted by the
Grand Mafter to the lodge room, and after the bufinefs of
the lodge was finished, it was adjourned in due form.
A copy from the records ,
Atteft, Robert Williams, Grand Secretary.
Agreeable to a notice and order from the Moft Worfhipful
Grand Mafter, the Grand Lodge of North-Carolina conven-
ed in the Lodge-room in the city of Raleigh, on the annual
communication, the 22d of November, A. L. 5798, A. D.
1798 — when were prefent,
r. w. James Glafgow, d. g. m. Grand Mafter pro temp.
r. w. Montfort Stokes, G. j. w. g. s. w. pro temp.
r. w.
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r. w. Probate Collier, g. j. w. pro temp.
r. w. Richard Freear, g. x.
r. w. Robert Williams, g. s.
r. w. James Rhodes, g. s. d. pro temp.
r. w. William Martin, g. j. d. pro temp.
Delegates from the different lodges produced their cre-
dentials and took their feats, viz.
St. John’s, No. i. Wilmington — Brother Benj. Mills.
St. John’s, No. 4. Kinfton — B. Probate Collier.
American George, No. 17. Murfreefborough — B. James
Jones.
King Solomon, No. 18. Jones county — B. Amos Johnfton.
Panfophia, No. 25. Moore county — B. William Martin.
Columbiam Lodge, No. 28. Wayne county — B. John
Bledfoe and B. James Rhodes.
St. Tammany, No. 30. Wilmington — B. A. D. Moore.
Beaufort Lodge in Cai'teret county, by difpenfation, B.
Micajah Pigott and B. Nathaniel Pinkham.
Vifitor — B. Duke Williams, of Rockingham county.
On the reprefentation of B. Rhodes, of Columbian Lodge,
No. 28, Wayne county, it is ordered that the faid Lodge
have a credit entered on the books of the Treasurer, of the
fum of five pounds, which they heretofore paid to the Grand
Secretary, by order of the Grand Lodge.
The Lodge was clofed in due form, to meet on the 24th
inft.
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T U E S D A Y, November 24, 1798.
The Grand Lodge met according to adjournment.
PRESENT ;
r. w. Robert Williams, g. s. Grand Matter pro temp.
r. w. Henry Potter, g. s. w. pro temp.
r. w. Peter Cafto, g. j. w. pro temp.
r. w. Francis Pugh, g. s. pro temp.
r. w. Probate Collier, g. s. d. pro temp.
r. w. Amos Johnfton, g. j. d. pro temp.
Delegates from the different Lodges.
St. John’s, No. 1. Wilmington — B. Benj. Mills.
Royal White Hart, No. 2. Halifax — B. Stephen W. Car-
ney and B. Matthew C. Whittaker.
St. John’s, No. 4. Kinfton — B. Probate Collier.
Royal Edwin, No. 5. Windfor — B. Francis Pugh and B.
John Johnfton.
Johnfton-Cafwell, No. 10. Warrenton — B. James Turner
and B. Oliver Fitts.
St. John’s, No. 13. Duplin — B. Thomas Kenan.
American George, No. 17. Murf reef boro ugh — B. James
Jones.
King Solomon, No. 18. Jones county — B. Amos Johnfton.
Panfophia, No. 25. Moore county — B. Neil Smith and
William Martin.
Columbian, No. 28. Wayne county — B. James Rhodes and
B. John Bledfoe.
Beaufort Lodge, by difpenfation in Carteret county — B.
Micajah Pigott and B. Nathaniel Pinkham.
Vifitor — B. Duke Williams, of Rockingham county.
B. Probate
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B. Probate Collier, from St. John’s, No. 4. Kinfton, in-
troduced certain inftrudtions from the faid Lodge to him as
their reprefentative ; which were read and referred to a com-
mittee, confifting of Brothers Robert Williams, Richard
Freear and P. Collier, and to report thereon accordingly.
B. James -Turner, from Johnfton-Cafwell Lodge, No. 10.
Warrenton, produced a lift of the members of faid Lodge,
and a tranfcript of their proceedings. B. William Martin,
from Panfophia, No. 25. produced a lift of the members of
faid Lodge, and a tranfcript of their proceedings. And B.
Thomas Kenan, from St. John’s, No. 13. produced a lift of
the members of the faid Lodge, and a tranfcript of their
proceedings, together with a copy of their bye-laws; which
were feverally approved of, and ordered to be filed.
B. J. Johnfton, from Royal Edwin Lodge, No. 5, Wind-
for, produced a petition, figned by a number of brothers,
Matter Mafons, refiding in the neighborhood of Windfor,
and counties adjacent, praying to receive a charter, conftitut-
ing a Lodge in the neighborhood of Sandy- Run : which the
Grand Lodge think proper to gram in part, by iffuing a dif-
penfation.
On motion of B. Francis Pugh, it is refolved, that Bro-
thers James Turner, Oliver Fitts, John Johnfton and Ste-
phen W. Carney, be a committee to examine the accounts as
they ftand charged on the Treafurer’s books againft Royal
Edwin Lodge, No. 5. and make a report thereof accordingly.
The Lodge was then clofed in due form, to meet on the
9th of December.
SUNDAY, December 9, 1798.
The Grand Lodge met according to adjournment.
PRESENT i
The Moft Worfhipful His Excellency William R. Davie,
Governor of the ftate of North-Carolina, Grand Mafter.
r. w.
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r. w. Montfort Stokes, g. j. w. g. s. w. pro temp.
r. w. David Caldwell, g. j. w. pro temp.
r. w. Robert Williams, g. s.
r. w. Oliver Fitts, g. s. d. pro temp.
r. w. Neil Smith, g. j. d . pro temp.
Members — Brothers, the Hon. Samuel Johnfton, former
Grand Matter; Henry Potter and Peter Caffo.
Reprefentatives from the different Lodges:
St. John’s, No. i. Wilmington — B. Benj. Mills.
Royal White Hart, No. 2. Halifax — B. Stephen W. Car-
ney and Matthew C. Whittaker.
Johnfton-Cafwell, No. 10. Warrenton — B. James Turner
and B. Oliver Fitts.
St. John’s, No. 13. Duplin — B. Thomas Kenan.
American-George, No. 17. Murfreefborough — B. James
J ones.
Panfophia, No. 25. Moore county — B. William Martin
and B. Neil Smith.
Mount-Maria, No. 29. Iredell county — B. Col. David
Caldwell.
Beaufort Lodge, by difpenfation in Carteret county- — B.
Micajah Pigott and B. Nathaniel Pinkham.
Vifitors — Brothers Jofeph T. Myers, of Warrenton ; Sa-
muel Purviance, of Fayetteville ; and Robert Whyte, of
Glafgow county.
Received from Stokes Lodge, No. 32. in Cabarrus county,
a lift of their officers and members, together with a tran-
fcript of their proceedings : from Mount-Maria Lodge, No.
27. Iredell county, and Beaufort Lodge in Carteret county,
by difpenfation, lifts of their officers and members, together
with a tranfcript of their proceedings ; which were feverally
read and approbated, and ordered to be filed.
The
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The Grand Mafter laid before the Grand Lodge, the vifi-
tations made by himfelf, and proxies appointed for that pur-
pofe, to the feveral Lodges under the jur if diction of this
Grand Lodge; which were feverally read and approved of,
and ordered to be filed among the archives of the Grand
Lodge.
On motion, and feconded, Refolved , That a charter iffue
to certain Brothers in the county of Carteret, conftituting
a Lodge of Free and Accepted Mafons, by the name of Je-
rufalem, No. 35, to be holden at a place called the Straights,
in faid county, or near to a fchool houfe about that place.
That the charter be directed to Ifaiah Davis, Mafter; John
Hill, Senior Warden; and Thomas Harrifs, Junior Warden:
and that the Secretary of this Lodge fill up the faid charter
accordingly.
Whereas it is reprefented by a refolution of Panfophia
Lodge, No. 25. Moore county, that the place at which the
faid Lodge is now holden, is inconvenient, and not calculat-
ed for the purpofes defigned, therefore it is refolved by this
Grand Lodge, that the Mafter, Wardens and Brethren of
the faid Lodge, be, and they are hereby authorifed and em-
powered to open and hold the faid Lodge in future, at the
houfe of Malcomb M'Neil, in the faid county of Moore ;
and that the Grand Secretary enter this refolution as an en-
dorfement on their charter.
Refolved , That B. James Turner and B. Matthew C.
Whittaker be appointed a committee to enquire into the ftate
of the treafury, and make a report thereof to the next meet-
ing of this Lodge.
Refolved , That B. David Caldwell, and B. Oliver Fitts,
be appointed a committee to inveftigate the accounts of the
Grand Steward, and make a report thereof accordingly.
Refolved , That the Grand Secretary be directed to iffue
a difpenfation to Brothers Thomas Carfon, Mafter; Hugh
Campbell, Senior Warden ; and Hugh Cunningham, Junior
Warden, empowering them to open and hold a Lodge in the
town of Lexington,. in the county of Rowan.
The Lodge was clofed in due form, to meet on the 16th
inft. B SUNDAY,
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SUNDAY, December 16, 1798.
The Grand Lodge met according to adjournment.
PRESENT ;
The Moft Worfhipful His Excellency William R. Davie,
Governor of the ftate of North-Carolina, Grand Matter,
r. w. Montfort Stokes, g. j. w. g. s. w. pro temp.
r. w. Robert Williams, g. s. g. j. w. pro temp.
r. w. Amos Johnfton, g. s. pro temp.
r. w. David Caldwell, g. s. d. pro temp.
r. w. Probate Collier, g. j. d. pro temp.
Member — B. Peter Caffo.
Reprefentatives from the different Lodges:
Royal Edwin, No. 5. Windfor — B. Francis Pugh and B.
John Johnfton.
Johnfton-Cafwell, No. 10. Warrenton — B. James Turner
and B. Oliver Fitts.
King Solomon, No. 18. Jones county — B. Amos Johnfton.
Panfophia, No. 25. Moore county — B. William Martin
and B. Neil Smith.
Davie-Glafgow, No. 26. Glafgow county — B. Probate
Collier.
Mount-Maria, No. 28. Iredell county — B. Col. David
Caldwell.
Unanimity, No. 34. Rockford, Surry county — B. Thomas
A. Word.
Beaufort Lodge, by difpenfation in Carteret county— B.
Micajah Pigott and B. Nathaniel Pinkham.
Vifitors — Brothers Major-General William Lenoir; Ro-
bert Whyte, of Glafgow county; John Strother; and Sa-
muel Purviance, of Fayetteville.
B. Richard
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B. Richard W. Freear, Grand Treafurer, came into the
Grand Lodge, and in due form refigned his office of Trea-
furer to this Grand Lodge.
Refolved , That B. Richard W. Freear, late Grand Trea-
furer, be credited in the fettlement of his account as Trea-
furer aforefaid, for the fum of fifty five pounds ; that fum
being ftolen from him of the funds of the Grand Lodge. —
Provided that if B. Freear fhould at any time hereafter re-
cover this money, then and in that cafe, he is to be account-
able to this Grand Lodge for the fame, or any part thereof
which may be fo recovered.
On motion, and feconded, Refolved , That the Grand Se-
cretary be diredted to deliver to the Reprefentative of Una-
nimity Lodge, No. 34. Rockford, Surry county, the book
containing the proceedings of that Lodge, which were acci-
dentally depofited among the archives of the Grand Lodge.
The Grand Lodge, agreeable to nomination heretofore
made, now proceeded to the election of officers of this Grand
Lodge -for the enfuing year — when were appointed :
The Moft Worfhipful His Excellency William R. Da-
vie, Efquire, Governor, Captain General, &c. of the ftate
of North-Carolina, Grand Mafter.
The r. w. Montfort Stokes, Efquire, Clerk to one of the
Supreme Courts of this ftate, Grand Senior Warden.
The r. w. Colonel David Caldwell, Member in the Se-
nate of the Legiflature of this ftate, Grand Junior Warden.
The r. w. Robert Williams, Attorney at Law, Grand
Secretary.
The r. w. Henry Potter, Attorney at Law, Grand Trea-
furer.
The Moft Worfhipful Grand Mafter, agreeable to the
conftitution, then appointed:
The r. w. the Honourable John Haywood, Efquire, one
of the Judges of the Superior Courts of Law and Equity in
this ftate, Deputy Grand Mafter.
The
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The r. w. the Honourable Edward Jones, Solicitor-Ge-
neral of the ftate, Grand Senior Deacon.
The r. w. Oliver Fitts, Efquire, Attorney at Law, Grand
Junior Deacon.
The r. w. the Honourable Major-General Stephen W.
Carney, Grand Marfhal.
The r. w. Abfalom Tatum, late member in Congrefs,
Grand Perfuivant.
The r. w. Thomas Pound, Grand Tyler.
Rcfolved , That the G. Secretary be, and he is hereby direct-
ed to make application to the feveral Lodges in this ftate which
are now in a ftate of demife, for the books, papers, jewels,
funds and furniture of the faid Lodges refpectively, agree-
able to the xoth article of the conftitution.
On motion, and feconded, Refolved , That Brothers Ro-
bert Williams, Richard W. Freear and Probate Collier, be
appointed a committee to inveftigate the accounts of the
Grand Lodge with the Kinfton Lodge, St. John’s, No. 4. and
make a report thereof to the next meeting of this Grand
Lodge.
On motion, and feconded, Refolved, That Brothers Da-
vid Caldwell, Oliver Fitts and William Martin, be appointed
a committee to form and devife fome plan for erebting build-
ings in the city of Raleigh, neceffary and conveniently adapt-
ed for the future meetings of this Grand Lodge, and a depo-
fit for the records thereof ; and make a report of fuch. their
plan to the next grand anntial communication.
The committee appointed to inveftigate the ftate of the
treafury, made their report ; which was approbated, and or-
dered to be filed.
The committee appointed to inveftigate the accounts of
the Grand Steward, made their report; which was concur-
red with, and ordered to be filed.
The committee appointed to inveftigate the accounts exift-
ing between the Grand Lodge and Royal Edwin Lodge,
No. 5. made their report; which was concurred with, and
ordered to be filed. Refolved,
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Refolved , That Thomas Pound, Tyler of this Grand Lodge,
be allowed the firm of twenty fhillings for each meeting of
the Grand Lodge which he heretofore attended, and for each
meeting that he may hereafter attend. That the Treafurer
pay the fame to him accordingly on a certificate of the Grand
Secretary to that effedt, counterfigned by the Grand Matter.
The Grand Lodge then adjourned fine die.
Atteft , Robert Williams, Grand Secretary .
A LIST of the refpective Lodges under the jurifdidtion of
the Grand Lodge of North Carolina.
St. John’s No,
. 1
Wilmington
Royal-White Hart
2
Halifax
St. John’s
3
Newbern
St. John’s
4
Kinfton
Royal Edwin
5
Windfor
Royal William
6
Winton
Unanimity
7
Edenton
Phoenix
8
Fayetteville
Old Cone
9
Salifbury
Johnfton Cafwell
10
Warrenton
Cafwell Brotherhood
11
Cafwell county
Independence
St. John’s
12
Chatham county
13
Duplin county
RutherfordFellowrfhip 14
Rutherford county
Wafhington
15
Beaufort county
St. Tammany
16
Martin county
American George
17
Murfreefborough
King Solomon
iS
Jones county '
Eagle
19
Hillfborough
Laurel Hill
22
Richmond county
Hiram
24
Williamfborough, Granville c.
Panfophia
25
Moore county
Davie Glafgow
26
Glafgow county
Mount-Maria
27
Iredell county
Columbian
28
Wayne county
St. Tammany No. 1
of Tenneffee \
29
Nafhville, in the ftate of Ten-
neffe
St. Tammany
30
Wilmington
Phalanx
3i
Charlotte, Mecklenburg county
Stokes
32
Cabarrus county
Freeland
33
Rowan county
Unanimity
34
Rockford, Surry county
Jerufalem
35
Carteret county
62
N. B.
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N. B. St. John’s Lodge, No. 3. Newbern — Johnfton-
Cafwell, No. 10. Warrenton — Phoenix, No. 8. Fayetteville
— Old Cone, No. 9. Salifbnry — Panfophia, No. 25. Moore
county — Mount-Maria, No. 27. Iredell county — St. Tam-
many, No. 3. Wilmington — are of all the Lodges under the
jur if dibtion of this grand Lodge, moft attentive to the bu-
finefs of the Craft, and Mafonic communications, to wit — in
fending their delegation to this Grand Lodge, and tranfmit-
ing a lift of their members annually, with a tranfcript of
their proceedings — as appears from the records of this Grand
Lodge.
A LIST of the Members of the Grand Lodge of North-
Carolina.
Samuel Johnfton
* Richard Cafwell
Michael Payne
John Mare
James Glafgow
Abner Neale
John Johnfton
Jofeph Reach
H. Hill
Thomas Hunter
S. W. Arnett
* Wm. Johnfton Dawfon
James Read
Stephen Cabarrus
* John Stokes
Charles Johnfon
* John Armftrong
Lunsford Long
* James Potterfield
Wm. R. Davie
Edward Jones
Robert Williams, jun.
Abfalom Tatum
Wm. Leigh
Kemp Plummer
Montfort Stokes
Robert Smith
John Winflow
Good. Davis
John Macon
Wm. Douglafs
Jofeph M‘Dowell
Wm. Duffy
John Hamilton
Peter Caffo
Samuel Murley
Waightftill Avery
* Thaddeus Barnes
Nath. Alexander
John Williamfon
A. Fergufon
Henry Potter
Thomas A. Word
John M. Binford
Thomas Pound
A copy from the records ,
Robert Williams, Grand Secretary.
Thofe marked with an *, are denoted to be dead.
An
An Ordinance of the Convention of Mafons — republifhed.
THE Moft Worfhipful William R. Davie, Grand
Mafter, Chairman of the committee to whom was referred
the formation of a Conftitution for the government of the
Grand Lodge, and the refpeftive Lodges under its jurifdibti-
on, made his report — On which the Grand Lodge, in con-
vention of all its Members, Delegates, Brothers, Mafter
Mafons, &c. proceeded to inveftigate with all poffible folem-
nity neceffary to fuch an important fubject — the Conftitution
reported, was heretofore read for information, -it was again
read for that purpofc, and then proceeded on febtion by febti-
on ; and after a long and ftribt examination, the faid Conftitu-
tion was amended, paffed and accepted with the unanimous
confent of all the Brothers prefent as aforefaid. The faid
Conftitution was then in a moft folemn manner ratified by
this Convention in Grand Lodge, and ordered to be enrolled
among the archives of Mafonry, for the government of its
future members, and the refpebtive Lodges under this jurif-
dibtion.
It is furtfier ordained; That B. Robert Williams, jun.
be appointed, and is hereby required to have the faid
Conftitution printed, and one duplicate thereof to be tranf-
mitted by him as Secretary to the Grand Lodge, to every
Grand Lodge in the United States of America and Nova-
Scotia, and another duplicate thereof be by him tranfmitted
to every Lodge under the jurifdiblion of this Grand Lodge.
Atteft. Robert Williams, Grand Secretary.
A LIST
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A LIST of the Officers and Members of each refpehtive
Lodge under the jurifdidtion of the Grand Lodge of
N orth-Carolina.
St. John’s, No. i. Wilmington — No return made.
Royal White-Hart, No. 2. Halifax.
Officers.
Lunsford Long, Mafter.
Jesse Rhymes, S. W.
John Hannon, J. W.
Starling Marfhall, Sec.
William Gilmour, Treaf.
Baffett Stith, \
Richard H. Long, j
Thomas Hall, S. D.
Thomas Tabb, J. D.
Stewarts.
Edward Hall
Nicholas Long
Auguftine Willis
John Ingles
Guildford Dudley
Goodorum Davis
Gee Bradley
Abafhar Thomas
Patrick Martin
Howell Tatum
Peter Morgan
Thomas Pafteur
William Burt
John Drew
James Williamfon
John Craven
Members.
Norfleet Harris
Elkanah Tally
John A. Anfon
Samuel Warren
Archibald Davis
Benjamin Eafley
Samuel Marfom
Benjamin Edwards
Jacob Johnfton-
Stephen W. Carney
Archibald Jett
David Cofield
James Brownlow
John Branch
Matthew C. Whittaker
Benjamin Cofield
John Haywood
James Hilliard
Willis Alfton, jun.
Richard H. Long
Thomas Hall
Eaton Pugh
Laurence Mooney
Montfort Stokes
Eli B. Whittaker
Kindred Knight
William R. Davie
Mungo Ponton
William W. Carter
John Jof. Long
William Drew
Robert Williams, jun.
St. John’s, No. 3. Newbern.
Officers.
Francis Lowthorp, Mafter.
George Ellis, S. W.
John Craddock, J. W.
M. C. Stephens, Treaf.
Abiah H. Adams, Sec.
Archibald M'Callop, S. D.
John B. Good, J. D.
Solomon Hailing, Chaplain
Thomas Crew, Tyler.
Francis Stringer
Francis X. Martin
Richard Hunley
James Carney
Members.
Edward Pafteur
William Johnfton
Thomas Curtis
Silas W. Arnett
Bartholomew Clinch
William Bartlett
Samuel Gerrock
Levi Dawfon
William
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William Henry
William Hawley
Jofeph Wallace
Frederick F03'
Thomas Hyman
Thomas Wilfon
William Rofs
Thomas Ellis
Andrew Richardson
James Bryan
Elias Hawes
Thomas P. Irwin
James Green
Ifaac Taylor
T. Smith
Jacob Cook
Jofeph Shute
Abner Neale
I. Guion
Levi Fletcher
Francis A. Toi
Burwell Mooring
Edward Whyte
John Brown
Jofiah Barnard
John Dewey
E. Chamberlain
Thomas P. Ives
John Jones
Thomas Holden
James Cutting
Hardy Saunders
Jonathan Price
Thomas Spooner
James Moore
Francis Hawks
Charles Churchwell
John Sheffield
Richard Nison
Samuel Chapman
Abraham Cutten
John Sears
Southy Rew
Jeremiah Reading
Wallace Stiron
David Witherfpoon
Benjamin Woods
Frederick Deveaux
William Lawrence
William M'Clure
Silas Cooke
William Slade
John Harvey
John C. Ofborn
George Vaulteus
John Goulding
Armftead Hatching
James Sandy
William Ferrand
William Duffy
John Howard
James M-'Mins
Jonathan Fellows
Jofeph Mafters
Allen Blackhoufe
Jacob Peterfon
P. Elgilbert
Philip Chafe
John S. Barnes
Jofeph Oliver
Charles Williams
David P. Williams
Jofeph Green, fen.
Jofeph Hern
William Holland
James Hyman
Julius Elmour
Henry Tillman
George Kinns
Benjamin Williams
Reuben Barnard
James Wilfon
Alexander Duguid
Francis Lamotte
Thomas Marfhall
Hardy Bufh
Wearne Coffin
John Parker
Zebedee Perry
John Williams
Wm. Cox
J. Earle
Francis Lothorp, jun.
Wallace Willis
Stephen Weft
Robert Williams
John Hill
Wm. G. Berry
William Parks
Wm. C. Good
John Knowles
John Reade
John Wafhington
Peter Chafe
Maturin Ofrey
Enot Williams
George Dudley
Jacob Johnfton
Edward Warren
Edward Whyte
Ezekiel Delaftatius
Jofeph Griffin
Phillip Bragg
St. John’s No. 4. Kinfton — No return made for feveral
years paft.
Royal Edwin, No. 5. Windfor.
Officers.
Jofeph Gurley, Mafter. Stephen Buck, Treaf.
John Johnfton, S. W. Edward Acree, S. D.
P. R. Rofe, J. W. Blake Baker, J. D.
Hardy Boyce, Sec.
C
Members.
I
Wm. Higgs
Willis Wair
Thomas Scholar
James Norfleet
Wm. Pugh, jun.
Samuel W. Johnfton
Members.
Drury Moore
Wm. Granbury
Willie Brodie
James Granbury
Jofiah Moore
Samuel Granbury
John D. Whyte
D. Taylor
Langley Granbury
Archibald Parker
Lemuel Hall
Royal William, No. 6. Winton — No return made for feveral
years paft.
Unanimity, No. 7. Edenton — No return made for feveral
years paft.
Phoenix, No. 8. Fayetteville.
Officers.
Peter Pelham, J. D.
Samuel Murley, Treat.
Simeon Belden, Sec.
John Sibley, Matter.
Robert Cochran, S. W.
Caleb Howard, J. W.
Calvin Gay, S. D.
Lee Dekeyfer
John Window
James Howatt
Robinfon Mumford
Duncan M'Auflin
Daniel Wheaton
James Brenan
Alexander Fergufon
Members.
Robert M'Farland
Sterling Wheaton
David Anderfon
Malcomb M’Kinfie
John Louis Taylor
John Naylor
Robert Donaldfon
Charles Pelham
John Quinn
Patrick St. Lawrence
Thomas Overton
Duncan M'Rae
Peter M'Arthur
Donald M’lnnis
Samuel D. Purviance
Ifaac Hawley
Old Cone, No. 9. Salifbury.
Officers.
Wm. Cupples, Matter. John H. Pitchey, Sec.
Wm. Lee Alexander, S. W. Adlai Ofborne, Treat.
Robert Torrence, J. W.
Thomas Carton
Montfort Stokes
Hudfon Hughs
Wm. Hampton
Robert Williams, jun.
Michael Troy
Members.
John Farris
James Harris
David Brannan
Ifaac Jones
David Miller
Barnabas Dunn
George Miller
Hugh Newman
John M‘Clelland
Hugh Campbell
Henry Freeland
Hugh Cunningham
Johnfton-
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Johnfton-Cafwell, No, io. Warrenton.
Jacob Mordecai, Mafter.
James Turner, S. W.
Wm. E. Johnfton, J. W.
Oliver Fitts, Sec.
Officers.
Thomas Glofter, Treat,
James Cannon, S. D.
John Worthrew, J. D.
James Callier
John Alexander
Jofeph Lees
James Mofs
James Gray
Members.
Robert Parke
Wm. P. Dicke
John Hall
Kemp Plummer
Patrick Walker
Benjamin Kimbell
Edward Clureton
Henry Drake
Cafwell Brotherhood, No. n. Cafwell county — No return
made for fever a l years paft.
Independence, No. 12. Chatham county.
Officers and Members.
Zachariah Harman
George Lucas
Philip Meroney
Samuel Gntherie
Wm. Warden Francis Farrell
Patrick St. Lawrence Stephen Strauhan
Elijah Foodfkie Jofeph Haul
Zedekiah Burchard Lyman Foodfkie
St. John’s, No. 13. Duplin.
Officers.
Thomas Rutledge, Treaf.
Mich. Molton, S. D.
Edward Harrifs, J. D.
John Armftrong, Tyler.
James Kenan, Mafter.
Charles Ward, S. W.
Patrick Newton, J. W.
George Monney, Sec.
Wm. Becke, jun.
Daniel Gliffen
John Beck
John MTUwinen
Thomas Rutledge
Rigdon Bryan
Wm. Wilkerfon, fen.
Wm. Higgins
John Linton
George M'Donald
Members.
Claybourne Ivey
Owen O'Daniel
David Murdoch
John Barfield
John Hurft
Nathaniel M'Canne
Samuel Houfton
David Sloumhe
David Wright
George L- Linton
Thomas Kenan
Thomas Wright
L. Stephens
Holden M'Gee
Thomas Ivey
Stephen Beck
Wm. Wilkerfon, jun.
Mefhack Stallings
Shadrack Stallings
James Phcebus
St. Tammany, No. 16. Martin County — No return made
this year.
American
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American-George, No. 17, Murfreefborough.
Officers.
Patrick Brown, Matter
Bryan Benbury, S. W.
Jofeph Jones, J. W.
Win. Rea, Sec.
Hardy Murfree, Treat.
Lazarus Carter, S. D.
Benjamin Roberts, J. D.
Jofephs Jones, Steward.
Members.
Matthias B. Dickenf on Jonathan Brickell
Jofeph F. Dickenfon Francis Bell
Timothy Downey
Timothy Ridley
Edward Kilbee
Telemac Wafhington
Miles Everitt
Thomas Brownrigg
Zion Rutland
James Perry
Abner Perry
Benjamin Hare
Murfree Knight
Wm. Williams
Hugh Worton
Thomas Fitt
Thomas Banks
James H. Keys
Wm. Couper
Benjamin Cokely
Elias Gray Blake
Arthur Fofter
James Palmer
Godwin Cotton
Eli Moore
Drury Moore
Wm. Edwards Moore
Wm. Copeland
Laurence Carr
Cornelius Moore
John Driver
King Solomon, No. 18. Jones county.
Officers.
Win. T. Gardner, Matter.
James Smith, S. W.
James Harrifon, J. W.
Nicholas Bray, Sec.
Amos Johnfton, Treat.
John H. Bryan, S. D.
Frederick Bryan, J. D.
Members.
Frederick Hargett
E- Whitty
Abraham Romegay
Daniel Perry
Wm. George
Benjamin Lavender
John Lavender
Samuel King
Benjamin R. Smith
Frederick Fofcue
Stephen Kinfey
George Gardner
John Bigner
Jethro Darden
Stephen Granada
Jofeph Hatch
Richard Reynolds
Eagle, No. 19. Hillfborough — No return made.
Laurel-Hill, No. 22.
Richmond county-
le gat ion.
-No return nor de-
Hiram, No. 24. Williamfborough, Granville county.
Officers.
John Hare, Matter.
Leonard Henderfon, S. W.
John Brodie, J. W.
Stephen Sneed, Sec.
Henry Lyne, jun. Treat.
Phillip Bullock, S. D.
Wm. Moore, J. D.
Members.
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Micajah Bullock
James Lyne
James M. Burton
James Vaughan
John P. Smith
Robert Williams, jun.
Members.
James Greene
Francis Taylor
James Roberds
Wm. Pannell, jun.
Alexander Brodie
Samuel Hogg
Robert Burton
Wm. P. Little
John Minor
David Ruth
James Ridley
Wrm. Smith
Panfophia, No. 25. Moore county.
Officers.
Malcomb M'Neil, Mafter.
Neil Smith, S. W.
John Rea, J. W.
Malcomb Black, Sec.
Hedtor M'Neil, Treat.
Duncan Patterfon, S. D.
Dugald M'Farland, J. D.
John M'Leod,
Duncan Johnftou, j
Stewards.
Neil M'Leod
Francis Bullock
Archibald Rea
Laughlin M'Neil
Alexander Nieholfon
Peter Blue
Jacob Gafter
Wm. Mears
John M'Neil
John Matthews
Members.
Thomas Tyfon
Neil M'Leod
Norman M'Leod
Jacob Hartman
Thomas H. Perkins
Duncan Smith
Daniel M'Intofh
Peter M'Eachran
Dugald M'Millan
John M'Rimmon
Daniel Smith
Wm. Martin
John Dabney
James Matthews
Archibald M'Neil
Wm. M'Sircen
John Blue
Allen Morrifon
Wm. M'Sween
Davie-Glafgow, No. 26. Glafgow county.
Officers.
James Glafgow, Mafter
John Holliday, S. W.
Probate Collier, J. W.
Charles Carr, Sec.
Members.
W'illiam Holliday, Treaf.
Jacob Lafiiter, S. D.
Samuel Caldwell, J. D.
Cullen Couard, Tyler.
Benjamin Cafwell
Elias Carr
Obadiah Difou
Ballaney Harper
Silas Laffater
Henry Miller
^achariah Harte
Graves Bright
Frederick Dixon
Willis Dixon
Reading Pope
Reuben Laffater
James Collier
Willis Spear
Mount-Maria, No. 27. Iredell county.
Adlai Ofborne, Mafter.
David Caldwell, S. W.
Burges Gaither, J. W,
Abner Sharpe, Sec.
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Officers.
George Campbell, Treaf.
Eli Gaither, S. D.
James Caldwell, J. D.
Members.
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Archibald Young
Wm. Young
Andrew Caldwell
Collin Campbell
Alexander Davidfon
Members.
Jofeph Guy
Stephen Cowan
Alexander Means
Andrew Moore
George L. Davidfon
Jofeph Sharpe
Thomas Morris
Wm. Simington
Columbian, No. 28. Wayne county.
Oeeice-rs.
James Rhodes, Mafter.
John Bledfoe, S. W.
George P. Linton, J. W.
Jofeph Green, Sec.
Frederick Herring, Treaf.
Abner W. Long, S. D.
Stephen Arrington, J. D.
William S. Sears, ) 0, j
William Alford, f Stewards'
Burwell Mooring
David Stocumbe
Alexander Frafier
Members.
Robert Fellow
John Davis
Matthew Exum
Eriftus Hamon
Kinchen Garland
St. Tammany, No. 1. of Tenneffee — No. 29. of Naftiville,
in the ftate of Tenneffee — No return made.
St. Tammany, No. 30. Wilmington.
Officers.
N. w. Hill, S. D.
Thomas Hill, J. D.
Thomas Callender, ) ,
Jonathan Avery, [ Awards.
John Blakeley, Mafter.
John Lord, S. W.
Samuel Vance, J. W.
James Walker, Sec.
John M'Auflin, Treaf.
James Read
Charles Gorclon
Samuel T. Thurfton
Thomas Wright
George Davis
Wm. F. Strudwick
Roger Moore
Members.
Jonathan Snow
John Livingfton
John A. Abrams
Allmand Hall
Philip Spaulding
Jofeph Milne
John Bradley
A. D. Moore
Henry Watters
Richard Quince, jun.
John Hill
Abraham Ifaacs
Wm. M‘Kerrall
Archibald M'Corkle
Phalanx, No. 31. Charlotte, Mecklenburg county — No re
turn made.
Stokes,
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Stokes, No. 32. Cabarrus county.
Officers.
Martin Shine, Matter.
John Patterfon, S. W.
Silas Shinn, J. W.
Jofeph Shinn, Sec.
John Still, Treat.
Arthur M‘Ree, S. D.
John Houfton, J. D.
Thomas Rogers, Tyler.
Members.
Aaron Voris
James Nixon
James Plunkett
Mitchell Fleming
Wm. Morton
John Goodman
James Doherty
Wm. Atkerfon
Benjamin Biggs
John Rogers
John Livingfton
John Melker
Henry Price
Wm. Houfton
Jacob Hudfon
Jofeph Long
Wm. Phillips
James Crawford
Robert Anderson
Thomas Batey
Samuel Shinn
Alexander M‘Clenekin
John Graham
Freeland, No. 33. Rowan county.
Officers and Members.
Henry Pennington
Thomas Hudfon
James Williams
Douglafs Haden
Jeffe Haden
J. H. Pitchey
Robert Latham
John March
Benjamin Abbett
Wm. Tray
Joel Noel
Robert Bradfhaw
Wm. Pennington
John Pennington
Laurence Williams
Stephen Pearfon
James Hendricks
Andrew Hunter
Thomas Parrock
Unanimity, No. 34. Rockford, Surry county.
Officers.
Henry Young, Matter.
Marmaduke Kimbro, S. W.
Thomas A. Word, J. W.
Jeffe Lefter, Sec.
Calvin Wheaton, Treaf.
Martin Armftrong, S. D.
Gideon Edwards, J. D.
William Meredith, Tyler,
Members.
Ormon Kimbro
Goldman Kimbro
George Kimbro
Robert Rayford
Robert Williams, jun.
Duke Williams
Theophilus Lacey
Thomas Rogers
Curry Barnett
Jofeph Williams, jun
Charles Hunt
If ham Young
Jerufalem, No. 35. Carteret county.
Micajah Pigott, Matter.
John Hill, S. W.
Thomas Harrifs, J. W.
Richard Cogdill, Sec.
Officers.
D. Sebaftian, Treafurer.
Daniel O’Labey, S. D.
Samuel Thufe, J. D.
John Cratch, Tyler.
Members.
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A. Pinkham
C. Pigott
R. Pigott
Jeffe Pigott
S. Thomas
J. Pinkham
B. Chadwicke
Members.
T. Cradocke
W. Jones
D. Rumbley
T. Ruffel
S. Goodman
W. Thompfon
W. Sabifton
S. Davis
H. Davis
P. Pannell
A. Willis
T. King
D. Johnfton
St. John’s Lodge, by difpenfation in Morganton, will be
continued under another difpenfation.
A difpenfation to conftitute a Lodge in Lexington, in the
county of Rowan : another difpenfation, conftituting a Lodge
in Greeneville, in the county of Greene, in the ftate of Ten-
neffee — have iffued from the Grand Lodge.
A tteft.
Robert Williams, Grand Secretary.
HALIFAX; Printed by BROTHER A. HODGE.
ADDRESSES OE GRAND OFEIGERS
H. I. CLARK
.Scotland Neck,
Grand Master.
W. S. LIDDELL.
Charlotte,
Deputy Grand Master,
F. D. WINSTON
.Windsor,
Senior Grand Warden.
Hillsboro,
Junior Grand Warden.
WM. SIMPSON
Grand Treasurer.
JOHN C. DREWRY
Grand Secretary,
A. A. MARSHALL.
Raleigh
Grand Chaplain.
B. W. HATCHER
Biltmore,
Senior Grand Deacon,
R. N. HACKETT.
Wilkesboro,
Junior Grand Deacon.
E. F. LAMB
Elizabeth City.
Grand Marshal.
F. M. WINCHESTER.
Charlotte,
Grand Sword Bearer,
E. W. O’HANLON
Winston
Grand Pursuivant,
J. G. SNYDER
Rocky Mount,
W. B. McKOY
.Wilmington
R. H. BRADLEY
Raleigh
Committee on Foreign Correspondence,
Dr. John A. Collins (Chairman) Enfi
All communications should be addressed as above.
NEXT ANNUAL COMMUNICATION.
The next Annual Communication of this Grand Lodge
will he held in the City of Raleigh , commencing at 7:30 o'clock ,
P. M., on the Second Tuesday ( 13th day ) of January , 1903.
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